Ultrasound can detect macroscopically undetectable changes in osteoarthritis reflecting the superficial histological and biochemical degeneration: Ex vivo study of rabbit and human cartilage

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Nishitani, Kohei ^a   Kobayashi, Masahiko ^a   Kuroki, Hiroshi ^a   Mori, Koji ^b   Shirai, Takaaki ^a   Satake, Tsuyoshi ^a   Nakamura, Shinnichiro ^a   Arai, Ryuzo ^a   Nakagawa, Yasuaki ^a,c   Nakamura, Takashi ^a,c   Matsuda, Shuichi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; PROTEOGLYCAN;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MALE; MANKIN SCORE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PROTEIN CONTENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; RABBITS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 84896794551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089484     Document Type: Article

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