Sentences with phrase «developing joint cartilage»

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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Medical School and the University of Colorado at Boulder are currently trying to develop a gel into which they could place a patient's own cartilage cells that would reproduce once the solution was injected into a target joint.

The lowdown More than a quarter of women will develop osteoarthritis — a condition in which the cartilage that covers the bone surfaces at your joints begins to erode — in their hands.

OCD is a condition that develops in large, fast - growing puppies in which the cartilage in a joint doesn't form properly.

The natural and ongoing wear and tear on your dog's joints combined with your dog's slower ability to repair their cartilage can develop into more severe medical problems like arthritis.

These theories include failure of transition of cartilage to bone during development, and excessive wear and tear on the coronoid process due to joint incongruity which places abnormal stresses on the developing bone.

Due to this mutation Scottish Folds can have other cartilage defects, making them more likely to develop painful degenerative joint disease, particularly if they are not out - crossed to other breeds such as British Shorthairs.

In a dog with OCD, the cartilage on the end of a bone in the joint develops abnormally and separates from the underlying bone.

However, it can also occur as they get older and develop osteoarthritis, a form of arthritic inflammation characterized by degeneration of the joint cartilage and chronic deterioration.

Active Care Dog Food: Active Care Dog Food focuses on dogs» healthy joints and makes their products with natural chicken cartilage with unprocessed chondroitin and glucosamine, to develop, maintain and repair the joints.

This disorder occurs when the cartilage within the joint develops a flap.

The aim of this work is to understand how lubricin and HA synergistically enhance joint lubrication, mitigate inflammation and promote cartilage health, with the ultimate goal of developing novel therapeutic strategies for OA.

However, left to their own recovery, they will develop muscle atrophy, cartilage or joint atrophy, and compensate heavily on their other limbs during this time.

Certain supplements can help to lubricate the joints and provide some protection for developing or aging cartilage.

Ongoing wear and tear on your dog's joints as well as slower repair time of cartilage, leads to your pet developing arthritis which can be very painful.

Wear between the bones and meniscal cartilage becomes abnormal and the joint begins to develop degenerative changes.

Rottweilers are prone to Osteochondritis Dissecans, a condition in which the cartilage in the joint between two bones breaks or develops calcium spurs, meaning it does not protect the bones.

Excessive biomechanical loading of the inadequately supported epiphyseal articular cartilage leads to secondary disturbances in the nutrition, metabolism, function and viability of the chondrocytes in the developing joint surface.