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Intra-articular injection of a nutritive mixture solution protects articular cartilage from osteoarthritic progression induced by anterior cruciate ligament transection in mature rabbits: a…

Overview of attention for article published in Arthritis Research & Therapy, January 2007
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Title
Intra-articular injection of a nutritive mixture solution protects articular cartilage from osteoarthritic progression induced by anterior cruciate ligament transection in mature rabbits: a randomized controlled trial
Published in
Arthritis Research & Therapy, January 2007
DOI 10.1186/ar2114
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Yoo-Sin Park, Si-Woong Lim, Il-Hoon Lee, Tae-Jin Lee, Jong-Sung Kim, Jin Soo Han

Abstract

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease that disrupts the collagenous matrix of articular cartilage and is difficult to cure because articular cartilage is a nonvascular tissue. Treatment of OA has targeted macromolecular substitutes for cartilage components, such as hyaluronic acid or genetically engineered materials. However, the goal of the present study was to examine whether intra-articular injection of the elementary nutrients restores the matrix of arthritic knee joints in mature animals. A nutritive mixture solution (NMS) was composed of elementary nutrients such as glucose or dextrose, amino acids and ascorbic acid. It was administered five times (at weeks 6, 8, 10, 13 and 16) into the unilateral anterior cruciate ligament transected knee joints of mature New Zealand White rabbits, and the effect of NMS injection was compared with that of normal saline. OA progression was histopathologically evaluated by haematoxylin and eosin staining, by the Mankin grading method and by scanning electron microscopy at week 19. NMS injection decreased progressive erosion of articular cartilage overall compared with injection of normal saline (P < 0.01), and nms joints exhibited no differences relative to normal cartilage that had not undergone transection of the anterior cruciate ligament, as assessed using the mankin grading method. Haematoxylin and eosin staining and scanning electron microscopy findings also indicated that nms injection, in contrast to normal saline injection, restored the cartilage matrix, which is known to be composed of a collagen and proteoglycan network. thus, nms injection is a potent treatment that significantly retards oa progression, which in turn prevents progressive destruction of joints and functional loss in mature animals.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
Italy 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 69 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 15 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 10%
Student > Postgraduate 7 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 8%
Other 6 8%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 18 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 36%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 6%
Engineering 3 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 20 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 May 2022.
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#2,330,078
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Outputs from Arthritis Research & Therapy
#423
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#7,912
of 173,901 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Arthritis Research & Therapy
#2
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