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Chondrocyte transplant benefit moot in young arthritic knees

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young patients with osteoarthritic knees have generally poor outcomes from matrix-assisted autologous chondrocyte transplantation (MACT) as a salvage procedure in carti...

Positioning, Mobility and Therapeutic Equipment Designed by Kaye Products Now Offered by Rehabmart.com

Headquartered in Hillsborough, North Carolina, Kaye Products was conceived by Janet and Ed Howle in 1977. Janet Howle, PT, MACT, C/NDT expressed concerns to her husband that the adaptive equipment ava...

Is the Transplant Quality at the Time of Surgery Adequate for Matrix-guided Autologous Cartilage Transplantation? A Pilot Study.

BACKGROUND: Matrix-guided autologous chondrocyte transplantation (MACT) has been proposed as an option for treating large full-thickness cartilage defects. However, little is known about the chondroge...

Validation and extension of a simple questionnaire to assess physical activity in pre-school children.

OBJECTIVE: To (i) validate a recently proposed questionnaire tool for the simple assessment of physical activity (PA) in pre-school children by comparison with accelerometry and heart-rate recordings;...

23Na MR Imaging at 7 T after Knee Matrix-associated Autologous Chondrocyte Transplantation: Preliminary Results.

Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of sodium 7-T magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in repaired tissue and native cartilage of patients after matrix-associated autologous chondrocyte transplantation (M...

Effect of addition of coconut water (Cocos nucifera) to the freezing media on post-thaw viability of boar sperm.

The aims of this experiment were to evaluate the addition of coconut water in natura to the freezing media, compare the effect of deionized water vs filtered water of coconut over the post-thaw semina...

Terahertz-wave water concentration and distribution measurement in thin biotissue based on a novel sample preparation.

The measurement of water concentration and distribution in thin biotissues with terahertz (THz)-wave has been proposed. In this paper, a novel sample preparation approach was introduced to effectively...