Effects of Hyaluronan Molecular Weight on the Lubrication of Cartilage-Emulating Boundary Layers

[Image: see text] Osteoarthritic joints contain lower-molecular-weight (MW) hyaluronan (hyaluronic acid, HA) than healthy joints. To understand the relevance of this HA size effect for joint lubrication, the friction and surface structure of cartilage-emulating surfaces with HA of different MWs were...

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Autores principales: Liu, Zhang, Lin, Weifeng, Fan, Yaxun, Kampf, Nir, Wang, Yilin, Klein, Jacob
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Chemical Society 2020
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7556541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32931261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.biomac.0c01151