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Published in final edited form as: Nanomedicine. 2014 Jun 25;10(8):1777–1785. doi: 10.1016/j.nano.2014.06.010

Table 1.

Mean elastic moduli determined from individual donor samples belonging in three groups: normal, aged, and degenerated OA human menisci.

Age populations (years)	Tissue Condition	OA diagnosis (cartilage)	Elastic modulus (kPa)
			Outer	Middle	Inner
20, 31, 41	Normal	0–1	205.6 ± 8.9	188.0 ± 21.9	176.7 ± 28.0
55, 56	Normal Aged	1–2	303.0 ± 28.3	282.4 ± 30.2	274.0 ± 8.7
61, 75, 90	Aged OA	4 (TKA)	364.3 ± 72.2	401.9 ± 39.2	365.9 ± 106.5

OA (osteoarthritis)

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TKA (total knee arthroplasty)