Cartilage Flashcards
Division of the matrix into capsular, territorial and interterritiorial
Kerr, (2010)
Growth of cartilage through appoistional or interstitial
Gartner and Hiatt, (2014)
Table of types of cartilage
Ross and Pawlina, (2006)
Table on ECM constituents in fibrous/ fibrocartilage, hyaline cartilage
Freemont and Hyland, (2006)
Collagen is a protein which exists as various types depending on the sequence of amino acids within the protein chains
For example Type II collagen consists of 3 identical chains
Ramachandran, (2013)
Cartilage repair as a major goal of tissue engineering through stimulation of differentiation of stem cells
Freemont and Hyland (2006)
Facet joint degeneration linked to and preceeded by disc degeneration
Gelhorn et al., (2013)
Disc degeneration common and happens with age but at a more accelerated time scale to the normal aging process
Roberts et al., (2006)
Axial loading most evidenced etiology in endplate degeneration as seen more commonly in athletes such as gymnasts vs non-athletes
Kyere et al., (2012)
Drawing of the disc showing relative cartilage and proteoglycan amounts
Colombier et al., (2013)
Major age related changes have been reported within the IVD as early as the end of the first decade of life - due to early regression of blood supply
Roberts et al., (2006)
Schmorls nodes are the herniation of the NP through the cartilage endplate, commonly found on imaging and mostly asymptomatic
Kyere et al., (2012)
Schmorls nodes predominate in the thoracolumbar region and are more common in males, if become symptomatic thought to be due to an inflammatory response within the VB
Kyere et al., (2012)
Facet joint OA is the failure of the joint as a whole not just the cartilage, incidence increases with increasing age and is a common contributor to back pain
Gellhorn et al., (2013)
Facet and disc degeneration have been reported to occur clinically in concert and independently
Disc preceeds the facets
Jaumard et al., (2011)
