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Alice Maroudas
Researcher at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Publications - 100
Citations - 12523
Alice Maroudas is an academic researcher from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cartilage & Collagen network. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 100 publications receiving 11936 citations. Previous affiliations of Alice Maroudas include University of London & Royal London Hospital.
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Balance between swelling pressure and collagen tension in normal and degenerate cartilage
TL;DR: The concentration of GAG gradually increases from the articular surface to the deep zone, and it is suggested that this particular profile is adapted to the physiological function and mechanical properties of cartilage.
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Factors involved in the nutrition of the human lumbar intervertebral disc: cellularity and diffusion of glucose in vitro.
TL;DR: Calculated findings and derived values for glucose utilization in disc tissue indicate that nutritional conditions in the intervertebral disc are more critical than, for example, in articular cartilage.
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Nutrition of the intervertebral disc: solute transport and metabolism.
TL;DR: The metabolism of the canine nucleus pulposus was investigated at different oxygen tensions, and it was found that even at high oxygen tensions the metabolism is mainly anaerobic, only approximately 1.5% of the glucose being converted to carbon dioxide.
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Crosslinking by advanced glycation end products increases the stiffness of the collagen network in human articular cartilage: A possible mechanism through which age is a risk factor for osteoarthritis
Nicole Verzijl,Jeroen DeGroot,Chaya Ben Zaken,Orit Braun-Benjamin,Alice Maroudas,Ruud A. Bank,Joe Mizrahi,Casper G. Schalkwijk,Suzanne R. Thorpe,John W. Baynes,Johannes W. J. Bijlsma,Floris P J G Lafeber,Johan M. TeKoppele +12 more
TL;DR: Increasing cartilage AGE crosslinking by in vitro incubation with threose resulted in increased stiffness of the collagen network, which may contribute to the age-related failure ofThe collagen network in human articular cartilage to resist damage.