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Some biochemical characteristics and water exchange in human articular cartilage in osteoarthrosis
S S Nikolaeva1, A A Roshchina, Kim Zon Chkhol
1VILAR Research, Training, and Methodological Center of Biomedical Technologies, Moscow.
Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine
|November 7, 2002
Abstract:
Rearrangement of intra- and intermolecular bonds in collagen molecule, disaggregation of proteoglycans and their elimination from cartilage involved in osteoarthrosis are responsible for water accumulation and its increased mobility in cartilage.