The increased swelling and instantaneous
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Ruud A. Bank; Michael Soudry; Alice Maroudas; Joseph Mizrahi; Johan M. TeKoppele
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Objective: To provide evidence for the hypothesis that the loss of tensile strength of osteoarthritic (oa) cartilage (resulting in swelling-the hallmark of oa) is due to an impaired collagen network and not to loss or degradation of proteoglycans. ## Methods: The amount of degraded collagen mo