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Cartilage Tissue Homeostasis

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We now want to begin to develop a holistic view of cartilage as a tissue that has an integrated set of homeostatic processes for maintaining itself. In the context of other tissues in the body, such a proposal is hardly controversial, for it is well known that there are myriad of homeostatic processes maintaining our bodies throughout all our tissues, which despite outward appearances of being unchanging are in a continual state of flux.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia

    David W. Smith

  2. College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia

    Bruce S. Gardiner

  3. Department of Infrastructure Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Lihai Zhang

  4. Departments of Biological Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Alan J. Grodzinsky

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Smith, D.W., Gardiner, B.S., Zhang, L., Grodzinsky, A.J. (2019). Cartilage Tissue Homeostasis. In: Articular Cartilage Dynamics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1474-2_2

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