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SUBMITTER: Hasegawa A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3266452 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hasegawa Akihiko A Otsuki Shuhei S Pauli Chantal C Miyaki Shigeru S Patil Shantanu S Steklov Nikolai N Kinoshita Mitsuo M Koziol James J D'Lima Darryl D DD Lotz Martin K MK
Arthritis and rheumatism 20120301 3
<h4>Objective</h4>The development and patterns of spontaneous age-related changes in the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and their relationship to articular cartilage degeneration are not well characterized. This study was undertaken to investigate the types and temporal sequence of age-related ACL changes and to determine their correlation with cartilage lesion patterns at all stages of osteoarthritis (OA) development in human knee joints without prior joint trauma.<h4>Methods</h4>Human knee j ...[more]