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Now, we want to further develop the view that articular cartilage is a dynamic tissue that adapts to its environmental demands. As described previously, if we rely solely on the experimental literature, this is not an easy task as much of the reported experimental literature relates to the behavior of cartilage at ‘snapshots’ in time, or the experimental data is over relatively short times compared to the timescales over which articular cartilage adapts itself. Adaption can be measured in months and years rather than days and weeks, which is a fairly usual duration of many cartilage experiments.
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Smith, D.W., Gardiner, B.S., Zhang, L., Grodzinsky, A.J. (2019). Cartilage Tissue Dynamics. In: Articular Cartilage Dynamics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1474-2_3
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