Hyaline cartilage helps bones slide smoothly over each other at the joints; elastic cartilage is very flexible and found in the external ear, voice box, and tube between the ear and throat ...

Destruction of cartilage and bone tissue in the craniomaxillofacial region can lead to temporomandibular joint disease, ...

One such material is cartilage – the spongy yet firm connective tissue that keeps our bones from rubbing and jarring against each other. Over time, the translucent or 'hyaline' components of ...

2005;52(10):3300-3304. While characteristic of osteoarthritis (OA), a degenerative joint disease that affects some 20 million Americans, cartilage erosion and bone abnormalities are also ...

Through these processes, the tissue not only serves as a template for bone growth but also yields mature articular cartilage providing ... of more consistent hyaline-like repair tissue, the ...

During this process, each group produces its own set of regulator proteins and goes through its own developmental program to produce cartilage and bone. Researchers from the University of Basel ...

It also presents a novel therapeutic approach for accelerating the healing of defective cartilage and promoting the regeneration of hyaline cartilage. The findings of the study have been published ...