Many rheumatic conditions develop slowly and initially have inflammatory arthritis as the first sign that something is amiss. The trouble with such close similarity is the difficulty that clinicians have differentiating one ...
The University of Oxford, U.K., has led a study into the relationship between gout and neurodegenerative disease. In the paper, "Association of gout with brain reserve and vulnerability to neurodegenerative disease," published ...
Research led by Kosin University College of Medicine in Korea has found a correlation between patients with rheumatoid arthritis and Parkinson's disease. In their paper published in JAMA Neurology, researchers found a significantly ...
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Alabama has linked 10 genetic loci to the development of osteoarthritis. In their paper published in the journal Nature Genetics, the group describes their analysis ...
Osteoarthritis is a wear-and-tear disorder marked by bone thickening and cartilage degeneration, an excruciatingly painful disability and a major cause of impaired mobility as people age. But scientists have begun viewing ...
Cartilage injury is a common cause of joint dysfunction and existing joint prostheses cannot remodel with host joint tissue. However, it is challenging to develop large-scale biomimetic anisotropic constructs that structurally ...
Osteoarthritis, a disease that causes severe joint pain, affects more than 20 million people in the United States. Some drug treatments can help alleviate the pain, but there are no treatments that can reverse or slow the ...
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During cartilage development, chondrocytes secrete the extracellular matrix (ECM) and embed within the same environment. During progressive joint disease, such as osteoarthritis (OA), dysregulation of the process can lead ...
People suffering with osteoarthritis currently have only two treatment options: pain management and joint surgery. Both options can have complications and neither targets the disease's root causes.
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A patient population at increased risk for severe COVID-19 may help researchers understand why some people develop long-term, persistent symptoms (long COVID) while others do not.
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