A new study from the University of Chicago has uncovered the surprising origin of the flexible joints that allow us to move ...

The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the oldest jawed fishes had bones with joint cavities for articulated ...

While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

Cartilaginous fish form the same style of joint that we do, while jawless fish don't. Cartilaginous fish form the same style ...

Persistent symptoms, mainly joint and muscular pain and depression, have been reported several months after CHIKV infection. A retrospective cohort study on 199 patients [70] described the ...

Synovial samples were obtained from the following joints: coxo-femoral (2), shoulders (2), wrists ... the timing of synovial biopsy in the course of disease evolution might affect the histology and ...

They can be found in both layers of this synovial membrane and contribute to normal joint function by producing extracellular matrix components and lubricants. However, under inflammatory conditions ...

Zanca, in a case cohort of 1000 patients with ‘shoulder pain’, described an incidence of AC joint pathology of 12.7%.1 An observational study using MRI demonstrated arthritic changes in up to 48% of ...

Doctors sent samples of the mass to pathology, and it revealed she did have cancer, synovial sarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer that forms near the joints. “I’m learning the schwannoma ...

A synovectomy is a surgical procedure used to treat synovitis and some other conditions that affect the synovium, a thin membrane that lines the inside of certain joints (called "synovial joints"), ...

Synovial joints originated millions of years ago in jawed vertebrates, explained Sharma, a researcher at the University of Chicago. In a paper published Tuesday in PLOS Biology, she and her colleagues ...

Synovium is home to immune and stromal cell types that orchestrate inflammation following a joint injury; in particular, macrophages are central protagonists in this process. We sought to define the ...