Load-unloading response of intact and artificially degraded articular cartilage correlated with near infrared (NIR) absorption spectra
Load-unloading response of intact and artificially degraded articular cartilage correlated with near infrared (NIR) absorption spectra
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jmbbm.2012.11.022
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发表时间:
2013-04-01
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Oloyede, A.
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作者:
Afara, I. O.;Singh, S.;Oloyede, A.
The conventional mechanical properties of articular cartilage, such as compressive stiffness, have been demonstrated to be limited in their capacity to distinguish intact (visually normal) from degraded cartilage samples. In this paper, we explore the correlation between a new mechanical parameter, namely the reswelling of articular cartilage following unloading from a given compressive load, and the near infrared (NIR) spectrum. The capacity to distinguish mechanically intact from proteoglycan-depleted tissue relative to the "reswelling" characteristic was first established, and the result was subsequently correlated with the NIR spectral data of the respective tissue samples. To achieve this, normal intact and enzymatically degraded samples were subjected to both NIR probing and mechanical compression based on a load-unload-reswelling protocol. The parameter delta(r), characteristic of the osmotic "reswelling" of the matrix after unloading to a constant small load in the order of the osmotic pressure of cartilage, was obtained for the different sample types. Multivariate statistics was employed to determine the degree of correlation between or and the NIR absorption spectrum of relevant specimens using Partial Least Squared (PLS) regression. The results show a strong relationship (R-2=95.89%, p