Morphological Modifications in Osteoarthritis: A Scanning Electron Microscopy Study
The chondrocyte, the only cellular component of adult articular cartilage, plays a key role in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA). The evolution of this process is very slow: the first changes involve the cell-matrix morphofunctional unit known as chondron. In this study we analyzed the cartila...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2011-01-01
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| Series: | European Journal of Inflammation |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1721727X1100900111 |