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Creation of a Knee Joint-on-a-Chip for Modeling Joint Diseases and Testing Drugs
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2023
We provide detailed methods for generating four types of tissues from human mesenchymal stem cells, which are used to recapitulate the cartilage, bone, fat pad, and synovium in the human knee joint. These four tissues are integrated into a customized bioreactor and connected through microfluidics, thus generating a knee joint-on-a-chip.
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A Fine Motor Task to Study Joint Kinematics in a Preclinical Model of Neurodegenerative Disease
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2025
The current study describes a fine motor behavior test for examining motor deficits in rodent models, including the TgF344-AD rat, using machine learning.
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Automated Joint Space Detection Improves Bone Segmentation Accuracy
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2025
The development of an automated joint space detection workflow enabled high-throughput segmentation of distinct murine hindpaw bones with >98% accuracy in wild-type animals. Flexible application to forepaws and paws with inflammatory-erosive arthritis was achieved, but with deprecated performance that warrants further optimization in future studies using publicly available data.
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Structural Joints: Fibrous Joints
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2025
Fibrous joints are a type of joint where the bones are connected by fibrous connective tissue. These joints provide stability and minimal to no movement between the articulating bones. There are three types of fibrous joints. Suture All the bones of the skull, except for the mandible, are joined to each other by a fibrous joint called a suture. The fibrous connective tissue found at a suture strongly unites the adjacent skull bones and thus helps to protect the brain and form the face. In...
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Structural Joints: Cartilaginous Joints
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2025
As the name indicates, at a cartilaginous joint, the adjacent bones are united by cartilage, a tough but flexible type of connective tissue. Unlike synovial joints, these types of joints lack a joint cavity and involve bones joined together by either hyaline cartilage or fibrocartilage. There are two types of cartilaginous joints: Synchondrosis A synchondrosis ("joined by cartilage") is a cartilaginous joint where bones are connected by hyaline cartilage. Synchondrosis may be temporary or...
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Joint disease models reveal pathology through interactions among cartilage, synovial tissue, and bone rather than through an isolated lesion. Cartilage loss, synovial inflammation, and bone remodeling can influence one another, allowing investigators to examine tissue communication during osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and related disorders. This systems perspective connects cellular responses with broader changes in joint structure.
Different induction strategies reproduce different disease pressures. Inflammatory mediators emphasize inflammatory conditions, whereas mechanical stress or injury introduces physical or structural challenges; genetic changes provide another route to disease-like behavior. Selecting among these conditions helps researchers align the experimental system with the aspect of osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or another joint disorder they want to investigate.
A model’s usefulness depends on how closely it reflects human joint structure, biology, and disease progression. Stronger resemblance can make observed biomarkers, mechanisms, or treatment responses more relevant to human medicine, while major differences may limit interpretation. Researchers therefore need to consider model fidelity when judging whether findings can inform studies of human joint disease.
These systems represent joint disease at different levels of biological organization. Cultured chondrocytes or synovial cells focus on particular cell types, while organ or tissue explants preserve interactions within joint tissues. Engineered cartilage provides a constructed tissue system, and animal joints offer a whole-joint setting. The appropriate choice depends on the structure and disease process under study.
A study generally begins by selecting a suitable cell, tissue, engineered, or animal system, then applying a disease-related condition such as inflammatory mediators, mechanical stress, injury, or genetic change. Investigators examine resulting tissue or cellular changes and use the model to study biomarkers, mechanisms, or potential therapies. The sequence must match the intended disease question.
Joint disease models can support evaluation of biomarkers and investigation of the mechanisms underlying disease-like changes. They also allow researchers to examine how cartilage, synovial cells, and bone-related processes communicate under selected conditions. These findings can connect structural outcomes, such as cartilage loss or remodeling, with biological processes relevant to osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
They are useful when researchers need a controlled system for examining osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, or related disorders and for evaluating potential therapies. Models can also help compare disease-like responses produced by inflammation, mechanical stress, injury, or genetic changes. Their medical value is greatest when the selected system reflects the human joint features and progression relevant to the research question.