Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2019 May 8;2019:4039472. doi: 10.1155/2019/4039472

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

Copyright © 2019 Tianwei Xia et al.

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

PMC Copyright notice

TCA exerts cartilage protective effects in MIA-induced rats after 4 weeks of intraperitoneal injection. (a) Knee joint sections were stained with Safranin O/fast green. The sections were from rats after 4 weeks administration of TCA or vehicle. Representative sections are shown. Formation of osteophytes (yellow arrow), severe disruption of meniscal tissue (yellow box), and hyperplasia of synoviocyte (red arrow) were observed in vehicle-treated MIA-induced rats. There was mild fibroid-like change in TCA-treated MIA-induced group (red box). (b) OARSI scores of articular cartilage at 4 weeks after surgery. ∗P<0.05, NS: not statistically significant.