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THE REACTIONS OF INJURED HUMAN ARTICULAR CARTILAGE



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Abstract

1. The lines of fracture confirm the suggestions of earlier authors on the lines of strength in cartilage, with the additional feature of a transverse plane of weakness at the apex of the calcified zone.

2. The normal nutrition of cartilage is synovial, and access of a free blood supply is followed by destruction of hyaline articular cartilage.

3. Minor traumatic events in the articular lamella are common, particularly in osteoarthritic joints; the results of these on the cartilage are like the changes of osteoarthritis.

4. The removal of uncalcified cartilage can be described in two stages of a physico-chemical kind; the removal of calcified cartilage is a single cellular process.

5. There is evidence that the carbohydrate moiety of cartilage is present in two separable phases, one fixed to collagen, the other free.

6. The repair mechanisms after fracture are those available to restore the damage of osteoarthritis, and reasons can be shown why in fact they are ineffective.

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