chondrocyte
Chondrocytes are the sole resident cells of cartilage, embedded within the tissue's own matrix and responsible for producing and maintaining it.
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19 matcheschondroitin sulfate
A long sugar chain bristling with negative charge, which drags in water and lets cartilage spring back after every step.
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Chondrosarcoma is a cancer that forms in cartilage, most often affecting the pelvis, ribs, or the ends of long bones.
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An enchondroma is a benign cartilage growth within bone, most often found in the small bones of the hand and often discovered incidentally.
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Muscle and nerve fail first when these break down, because those tissues burn the most energy and store the least.
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Tissue gone soft where it should be firm, a change visible on scans and under the microscope alike.
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The setting in which fuel yields many times more energy, because with oxygen present a cell finishes the job instead of stopping halfway.
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A supplement form of carnitine tested against chemotherapy nerve damage, where the largest trial found the nerve injury worse rather than better.
Read definitionalpha-lipoic acid
Alpha-lipoic acid is a naturally occurring compound that helps cells convert nutrients into energy and also functions as an antioxidant.
Read definitionbone cancer
Bone cancer includes primary tumors that arise directly within bone tissue and secondary tumors that spread there from cancer elsewhere in the body.
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Carnitine is a naturally occurring compound that shuttles fatty acids into cells' mitochondria so they can be converted into usable energy.
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A nutrient that the body needs in small amounts to function and stay healthy.
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Stripped of a nucleus and packed with hemoglobin, this cell trades any ability to repair itself for maximum oxygen carrying capacity.
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A genome is the full set of DNA instructions an organism carries, including genes and the sequences that regulate them.
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Made in the body and eaten in meat, it is the ferry without which long chain fats never reach the furnaces inside a cell.
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To oxidize is to react chemically with oxygen or a similar substance, a process linked in the body to both energy production and cell damage.
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A synthetic flavonoid derivative.
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A cyclic depsipeptide isolated from the marine tunicate Aplidium albicans.
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A nutrient that the body needs in small amounts to function and stay healthy.
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