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It is well known that osteoarthritis (OA) is associated with advancing age. However, a large number of elderly people do not develop OA and a survey of aged cartilage, in the absence of degeneration, reveals unchanged physico-chemical characteristics. The object of this article is to describe some of the physical properties of femoral head and femoral condyle cartilage as a function of age and in OA. The properties with which we shall deal are the osmotic pressure of proteoglycan (PG) extracted from cartilage and the stiffness of the collagen network.
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Ben-Zaken, H., Schneiderman, R., Kaufmann, H., Maroudas, A. (2002). Age-dependent changes in some physico-chemical properties of human articular cartilage. In: Hascall, V.C., Kuettner, K.E. (eds) The Many Faces of Osteoarthritis. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8133-3_24
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