Moderate dynamic compression inhibits pro-catabolic response of cartilage to mechanical injury, TNF-α and IL-6, but accentuates degradation above a strain threshold

Objective Traumatic joint injury can initiate early cartilage degeneration in the presence of elevated inflammatory cytokines (e.g., tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and interleukin (IL)-6). The positive/negative effects of post-injury dynamic loading on cartilage degradation and repair in vivo are not...

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Main Authors: Li, Yang (Contributor), Frank, Eliot (Contributor), Wang, Yang (Contributor), Chubinskaya, Susan (Author), Huang, Han-Hwa (Contributor), Grodzinsky, Alan J. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier, 2015-10-23T15:07:11Z.
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