cartilage

More recent work from Liu and his team, however, revealed that the protein is also highly active in chondrocytes, the cells responsible for maintaining cartilage.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Lacosamide is already used as a treatment for epilepsy, but the researchers found that its effects on cartilage depended heavily on the dose.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Scientists have identified a way to restore cartilage in aging knee joints, at least in mice, by blocking a protein whose levels rise with age.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Instead of relying on stem cells, existing cartilage cells called chondrocytes changed their patterns of gene activity and shifted toward a more youthful state.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

Instead of just disposing of the foot, though, the doctors wanted to use cartilage from the toes to build me a new nose.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

First, the tiny cartilages in the human larynx -- called the arytenoids -- that change the position of our vocal folds, have changed dramatically in whales.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024

This ancient fish had separated, independent cartilages encasing the brain, rather than the solid bone or cartilage structure of jawless and jawed fish that followed it.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023

Costal cartilages connect the anterior ends of the ribs to the sternum, with the exception of rib pairs 11 and 12, which are free-floating ribs.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

It consists of the bones, cartilages, and ligaments.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013

Small as are these ossicles—and they, together, weigh only a few grains—they have their little muscles, cartilages, and blood-vessels, as perfectly arranged as the larger bones of the body.

From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison