The infrapatellar fat pad should be considered as an active osteoarthritic joint tissue: A narrative review

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 876-882

  Clockaerts, S ^a,b   Bastiaansen Jenniskens, Y M ^b   Runhaar, J ^b   Van Osch, G J V M ^b   Van Offel, J F ^a   Verhaar, J A N ^b   De Clerck, L S ^a   Somville, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adipose tissue; Inflammation; Infrapatellar fat pad; Knee osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE; CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MATRIX PROTEIN; SUBSTANCE P;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EDEMA; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INFRAPATELLAR FAT PAD; KNEE; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LYMPHOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; NERVE FIBER; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SYNOVIUM; UPREGULATION; VASODILATATION;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE;

EID: 77954215796     PISSN: 10634584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2010.03.014     Document Type: Review

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