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01-12-2015 | Meeting abstract
Musculoskeletal health from the “One Medicine” perspective – what can we learn from large and small animal models (with emphasis on articular cartilage)?
Authors:
P René van Weeren, Marianna A Tryfonidou
Published in:
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
In human medicine musculoskeletal diseases rank (together with mental disorders) first in reasons for occupational disability and have a huge impact on both quality of life and overall healthcare costs[
1]. The current increase in life expectancy, together with decreasing societal acceptance of impaired mobility, have strongly pushed musculoskeletal research in recent years. …