in the management of articular cartilage pathology. The purpose of the present study was to systematically review the published literature to answer the following questions: (1) what osteochondral ...

Since superior labrum lesions were first described in 1985 and the term “SLAP” lesion was coined in 1990, surgeons began to ...

This important study focused on characterizing clonally derived MSC populations from the synovium of normal and osteoarthritis (OA) patients, demonstrating their potential to regenerate cartilage in ...

Findings of this systematic review indicate that patients with intra-articular hip pathology experience short-term and long ... of surgery results in poorer outcome than cases with normal cartilage.

No representative histology was presented and there did not seem to be ... and additional information is needed to understand whether true MSCs only engraft in articular cartilage or also in ectopic ...

This study explores gene expression of three MMPs in articular chondrocytes during the histological development of the cartilage lesion of OA. METHODS Biopsy specimens of human normal and OA cartilage ...

Clin J Sport Med. 2014;24(1):31-43.

Objectives This study aims to investigate the role and mechanism of FGFR3 in macrophages and their biological effects on the pathology of arthritis ... imaging and μCT analysis; changes of articular ...

It is recognised that articular cartilage has a limited capacity to heal ... content reproducibly alters T2 relaxation time and is an indicator of abnormal cartilage pathology.53 Following ...

Past research has failed to reproducibly show integration of MSCs within articular cartilage repair and it is likely that ... an exciting therapeutic development in the treatment of joint pathology.

Recovery is similarly variable; some tendons recover with simple interventions, some remain resistant to all treatments. The pathology of tendinopathy has been described as degenerative or failed ...