Current perspectives on cartilage and chondrocyte mechanobiology

Issue title: 3rd International Symposium on Mechanobiology of Cartilage and Chondrocyte. Brussels, May 16–17, 2003

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Lammi, Mikko J.

Affiliations: Department of Anatomy, University of Kuopio, P.O. Box 1627, 70211 Kuopio, Finland Tel.: +358 17 163 027; Telefax: +358 17 163 032; E‐mail: mikko.lammi@uku.fi

Abstract: It is well known that physiological forces are essential for the maintenance of normal composition and structure of articular cartilage. Although some of the mechanisms of mechanotransduction are known today, there are certainly many others left unrevealed. In order to understand the complicated systems present in articular cartilage, we have to bring together the data from all fields of cartilage mechanobiology. The 3rd Symposium on Mechanobiology of Cartilage and Chondrocyte was a good effort towards that goal.

Journal: Biorheology, vol. 41, no. 3-4, pp. 593-596, 2004