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About hyaluronic acid
Hyaluronic acid has become one of the most
popular ways to treat arthritis and joint pain. When taken orally or
injected directly into the joints, it can actually help to replace
some of the lost fluid which is causing the pain.
Exercises such as yoga, martial arts, swimming and bike riding can
be done with very little stress on the joints, which will improve
your overall health.
If you have arthritis or chronic joint pain, a balanced program of
exercise and hyaluronic acid can decrease the pain considerably.
read more about
hyaluronic acid
Hyaluronic acid-based polymers as cell carriers for
tissue-engineered repair of bone and cartilage.
Solchaga LA, Dennis JE, Goldberg VM, Caplan AI.
Skeletal Research Center, Department of Biology, Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7080, USA.
Culture-expanded bone marrow-derived mesenchymal progenitor cells
differentiate into chondrocytes or osteoblasts when implanted
subcutaneously in vivo in combination with an appropriate delivery
vehicle. This in vivo implantation technique is used to test new
materials as putative delivery vehicles in skeletal
tissue-engineering models. HYAFF 11 and ACP sponges, two
biomaterials based on hyaluronic acid modified by esterification of
the carboxyl groups of the glucuronic acid, were tested as
osteogenic or chondrogenic delivery vehicles for rabbit mesenchymal
progenitor cells and compared with a well characterized porous
calcium phosphate ceramic delivery vehicle.
read more of this article at: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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