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 no...

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Main Authors: Li, Yang, Frank, Eliot, Wang, Yang, Chubinskaya, Susan, Huang, Han-Hwa, Grodzinsky, Alan J.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99434
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4942-3456