Medical textbooks describe three types of cartilage: hyaline, elastic and fibrocartilage. Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly over each other at the joints; elastic cartilage is very ...

“The main issue with the microfracture approach is that it often results in the formation of fibrocartilage — the same cartilage in our ears — as opposed to hyaline cartilage, which is the ...

LANZHOU, April 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers have made new progress in defective cartilage repair with the development of an implantable magnetoelectric bionic cartilage hydrogel, offering ...

Cartilage loss is a key factor in osteoarthritis, a disease that impacted nearly 530 million people in 2019. The condition causes joints to deteriorate over time, making everyday movement painful ...

Cartilage calcification is associated with knee osteoarthritis (OA). A study by Mitsuyama et al., however, suggests that calcification is primarily a consequence of aging rather than OA. A total ...

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 ...