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New approach to treating osteoarthritis advances

from NYU Langone Health/NYU School of Medicine via EurekAlert!

New approach to treating osteoarthritis advances NYU Langone Health/NYU School of Medicine via EurekAlert! In a new NYU Grossman School of Medicine-led study, researchers injected adenosine into the joints of rodents whose limbs had been damaged by inflammation resulting from either traumatic injury, such as a torn ligament, or from massive weight gain placing pressure on joints. The biological damage in these cases is similar, researchers say, to that sustained in human osteoarthritis. Publishing online in the journal Scientific Reports on Aug. 10, the study rodents received eight weekly injections of adenosine, which prompted regrowth rates of cartilage tissue between 50 percent and 35 percent as measured by standard laboratory scores. READ MORE

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