Evaluation of equine articular cartilage degeneration after mechanical impact injury using cationic contrast-enhanced computed tomography.
Animals
Cancellous Bone
/ diagnostic imaging
Cartilage, Articular
/ diagnostic imaging
Chondrocytes
/ pathology
Coloring Agents
Compressive Strength
Contrast Media
Glycosaminoglycans
/ metabolism
Horses
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Models, Animal
Osteoarthritis, Knee
Phenazines
Stifle
/ injuries
Synovial Membrane
/ pathology
X-Ray Microtomography
Biochemical
Cartilage imaging
Glycosaminoglycan
Histology
Osteoarthritis
Post traumatic OA
Journal
Osteoarthritis and cartilage
ISSN: 1522-9653
Titre abrégé: Osteoarthritis Cartilage
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9305697
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2019
08 2019
Historique:
received:
13
12
2018
revised:
13
04
2019
accepted:
16
04
2019
pubmed:
11
5
2019
medline:
26
8
2020
entrez:
11
5
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Cationic agent contrast-enhanced computed tomography (cationic CECT) characterizes articular cartilage ex vivo, however, its capacity to detect post-traumatic injury is unknown. The study objectives were to correlate cationic CECT attenuation with biochemical, mechanical and histological properties of cartilage and morphologic computed tomography (CT) measures of bone, and to determine the ability of cationic CECT to distinguish subtly damaged from normal cartilage in an in vivo equine model. Mechanical impact injury was initiated in equine femoropatellar joints in vivo to establish subtle cartilage degeneration with site-matched controls. Cationic CECT was performed in vivo (clinical) and postmortem (microCT). Articular cartilage was characterized by glycosaminoglycan (GAG) content, biochemical moduli and histological scores. Bone was characterized by volume density (BV/TV) and trabecular number (Tb.N.), thickness (Tb.Th.) and spacing (Tb.Sp.). Cationic CECT attenuation (microCT) of cartilage correlated with GAG (r = 0.74, P < 0.0001), compressive modulus (E Cationic CECT (microCT) reflects articular cartilage properties enabling segregation of subtly degenerated from healthy tissue and also reflects bone morphometric properties on CT. Cationic CECT is capable of characterizing articular cartilage in clinical scanners.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31075424
pii: S1063-4584(19)30962-8
doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2019.04.015
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Coloring Agents
0
Contrast Media
0
Glycosaminoglycans
0
Phenazines
0
safranine T
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1219-1228Informations de copyright
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