Cracking your knuckles might feel satisfying, but it often earns disapproving looks or even dire warnings. For decades, ...

Synovial joints have a cavity filled with viscous synovial fluid to reduce friction between joint bones Osteoarthritis involves degeneration of cartilage tissue at synovial joints due to changes ...

The human joints contain a fluid known as synovial fluid. The research team focused on the differences in the composition of metabolites—byproducts of chemical processes occurring within the ...

Joint and soft tissue injections are valuable in the clinician’s therapeutic arsenal. With proper patient selection, ...

Synovial fluid absolute neutrophil count had a sensitivity of 88.4% for detecting periprosthetic joint infection. It also had a greater area under the curve vs. white cell count and ...

The human joints contain a fluid known as synovial fluid. The research team focused on the differences in the composition of metabolites-byproducts of chemical processes occurring within the body ...

When using CT scanning to study a Bothriolepis fossil, Sharma observed a joint cavity between the shoulder and pectoral fin. Whether the cavity was filled with synovial fluid or cartilage is ...

In time, this had revealed that skates express CD44 and aggrecan, meaning that without this, joints would have no lubrication. CD44 is a cell surface receptor that binds itself to the hyaluronic acid, ...