Abnormal softening in articular cartilage. Its relationship to the collagen framework
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- 1 October 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Arthritis & Rheumatism
- Vol. 25 (10), 1209-1216
- https://doi.org/10.1002/art.1780251010
Abstract
Abnormal softening in articular cartilage is related to the presence of collagen fibers strongly aligned in a radial direction. In this paper, a morphologic model is proposed that provides a mechanism by which these radial arrays can develop passively from the more random, 3-dimensional network of fibers observed in normal articular cartilage.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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