Of Mice, Men and Elephants: The Relation between Articular Cartilage Thickness and Body Mass

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Malda, Jos ^a,b,c   de Grauw, Janny C ^c   Benders, Kim E M ^a   Kik, Marja J L ^c   van de Lest, Chris H A ^c,d   Creemers, Laura B ^a   Dhert, Wouter J A ^a,c   van Weeren, P René ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN;

ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE THICKNESS; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DENSITY; DNA CONTENT; DNA DETERMINATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMUR CONDYLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; THICKNESS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; COLLAGEN; DNA; ELEPHANTS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMUR; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 84874338026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057683     Document Type: Article

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