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Age-associated changes in cartilage matrix: implications for tissue repair.
Clinical orthopaedics and related research - 1 Oct 2001
Roughley P J
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The structure of the extracellular matrix of articular cartilage varies considerably with age. These changes are attributable to variations in molecular abundance and structure, and they can affect all the matrix components, but none more so than the proteoglycans. Some of these changes are attributable to variations in synthesis whereas others are attributable to variations in degradation, some of the changes...
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