Articular Cartilage

ISBN-13: 9783639132205 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 100 str.

Stephanie Mehl

Opis

Until the processes occurring at healthy cartilageare not widely known, it is impossible to understand which factorshave a decisive influence on pathological changes in diseases likeosteoarthritis. Apart from the biochemical interactions, themechanical behaviour of the articular cartilage plays a decisive role.During every joint motion enormous loads affect the bearing surface andnormally cause no damage on the thin layers of cartilage. Inorder to evaluate this outstanding performance, unconfined compressionand atomic force microscopy (AFM) were utilized to gain adetailed impression of the hyaline cartilage derived from the bovine kneejoint. With regard to the compression, static, creep and dynamictests were applied to qualify the cartilages reaction towardsexternal loads. In contrast, the atomic force microscope (AFM) assistedin the description of the surface structure and theroughness values of the cartilages surface layer. This book exposes adetailed picture of the hyaline cartilage located at the bovine knee jointthat is regarded to be of interest for all kind of (bio)medical scientists.

O autorze

Stephanie Mehl, Dipl.-Ing(FH) / B.Eng. : Studies of medical
engineering at the
University of Applied Scienes Ulm (D) and at the University of
Bradford (UK), R&D
engineer at WW Technology AG,Schlieren (CH)