Chondrocyte (IMAGE)

WashU Medicine

Chondrocyte

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have engineered cartilage cells to release an anti-inflammatory drug in response to stresses such cells undergo when they are compressed during weight bearing and movement. Here, the cell, called a chondrocyte, is stimulated with a very small glass pipette, about 1/5 the diameter of a human hair. When these cells undergo compression, they release the drug that combats inflammation.

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Guilak lab

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