Recent progress in cartilage lubrication

W Lin, J Klein - Advanced Materials, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Healthy articular cartilage, covering the ends of bones in major joints such as hips and
knees, presents the most efficiently‐lubricated surface known in nature, with friction …

Salivary gland function, development, and regeneration

AM Chibly, MH Aure, VN Patel… - Physiological …, 2022‏ - journals.physiology.org
Salivary glands produce and secrete saliva, which is essential for maintaining oral health
and overall health. Understanding both the unique structure and physiological function of …

Osteoarthritis: toward a comprehensive understanding of pathological mechanism

DI Chen, J Shen, W Zhao, T Wang, L Han, JL Hamilton… - Bone research, 2017‏ - nature.com
Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common degenerative joint disease and a major cause of
pain and disability in adult individuals. The etiology of OA includes joint injury, obesity …

Progress in intra-articular therapy

CH Evans, VB Kraus, LA Setton - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2014‏ - nature.com
Diarthrodial joints are well suited to intra-articular injection, and the local delivery of
therapeutics in this fashion brings several potential advantages to the treatment of a wide …

[HTML][HTML] The biology of Lubricin: Near frictionless joint motion

GD Jay, KA Waller - Matrix Biology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Lubricin is a surface-active mucinous glycoprotein secreted in the synovial joint that plays an
important role in cartilage integrity. In healthy joints, lubricin molecules coat the cartilage …

Targeting cartilage EGFR pathway for osteoarthritis treatment

Y Wei, L Luo, T Gui, F Yu, L Yan, L Yao… - Science translational …, 2021‏ - science.org
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a widespread joint disease for which there are no disease-modifying
treatments. Previously, we found that mice with cartilage-specific epidermal growth factor …

BMSC‐Derived Exosomes Ameliorate Osteoarthritis by Inhibiting Pyroptosis of Cartilage via Delivering miR‐326 Targeting HDAC3 and STAT1//NF‐κB p65 to …

H Xu, B Xu - Mediators of Inflammation, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Background. In the past decade, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been widely used
for the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA), and noncoding RNAs in exosomes may play a major …

Lgr5-expressing secretory cells form a Wnt inhibitory niche in cartilage critical for chondrocyte identity

A Ruscitto, P Chen, I Tosa, Z Wang, G Zhou, I Safina… - Cell stem cell, 2023‏ - cell.com
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease that causes pain, degradation, and dysfunction.
Excessive canonical Wnt signaling in osteoarthritis contributes to chondrocyte phenotypic …

Articular cartilage repair: current needs, methods and research directions

D Correa, SA Lietman - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Articular cartilage is a highly specialized tissue whose remarkable properties of
deformability, resistance to mechanical loading, and low-friction gliding are essential to joint …

Mechanical cues: bidirectional reciprocity in the extracellular matrix drives mechano-signalling in articular cartilage

SJ Gilbert, CS Bonnet, EJ Blain - International journal of molecular …, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
The composition and organisation of the extracellular matrix (ECM), particularly the
pericellular matrix (PCM), in articular cartilage is critical to its biomechanical functionality; the …