Going from Negative to Positive in the Treatment of Osteoarthritis (1 of 1) (IMAGE)

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Going from Negative to Positive in the Treatment of Osteoarthritis (1 of 1)

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The nanocarrier treatment reduced cartilage degeneration in the knees of rats with joint injuries (bottom right) compared to untreated rodents (top left, degeneration outlined in red). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 28, 2018, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by B.C. Geiger at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.; and colleagues was titled, "Cartilage-penetrating nanocarriers improve delivery and efficacy of growth factor treatment of osteoarthritis."

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B.C. Geiger<i> et al., Science Translational Medicine </i> (2018)

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