Cartilage Volume 2: Pathophysiology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Grässel, Susanne (Editor), Aszódi, Attila (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human physiology.; Orthopedics.; Pathology.; Biomedicine.; Human Physiology.

In three Volumes this mini book series presents current knowledge and new perspectives on cartilage as a specialized yet versatile tissue. This second volume is dedicated to basic pathologies of the two most common osteoarticular diseases affecting large segments of the Western population, osteoarth...

Table of Contents:

• 2. Pathophysiology
• 2.1 Osteoarthritis
• Mary Goldring or Tom Aigner: Osteoarthritis in general
• Thomas Pap/Julia Bertrand: OA and Syndecans
• Tonia Vincent: Cartilage injury
• Richard Loeser: OA and aging
• Attila Aszodi: Integrin-mediated interactions in OA
• Susanne Grässel: Neuroendocrinology (POMC, sensory and sympathetic nervous system) and OA
• Andrew Pitsillides : OA and profiling or murine models
• Amanda Fosang: Proteoglycan degradation in osteoarthritis
• 2.2 Chondrodysplasias
• John Bateman: Chondrodysplasias in general
• Danny Chan: Chondrodysplasias or disk degeneration
• Mats Paulsson or Frank Zaucke: Matrilins/COMP mutations and cartilage pathology.