Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly over each other at the joints; elastic cartilage is very flexible and found in the external ear, voice box, and tube between the ear and throat ...

Destruction of cartilage and bone tissue in the craniomaxillofacial region can lead to temporomandibular joint disease, ...

Currently, the standard procedure is microfracture surgery, which involves creating small fractures in the bone to ... the same cartilage in our ears — as opposed to hyaline cartilage, which ...

2005;52(10):3300-3304. While characteristic of osteoarthritis (OA), a degenerative joint disease that affects some 20 million Americans, cartilage erosion and bone abnormalities are also ...

It also presents a novel therapeutic approach for accelerating the healing of defective cartilage and promoting the regeneration of hyaline cartilage. The findings of the study have been published ...

“MMP-13 inhibitors might be useful in halting cartilage erosion in osteoarthritis,” claims Christopher Little, Director of the Raymond Purves Bone and Joint Research Laboratories, The ...

and we work extensively on the development of novel porous ceramic structures for bone tissue engineering. Cartilage tissue engineering scaffolds research is directed at both polymeric systems for ...