 Osteoarthritis
"Osteoarthritis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A progressive, degenerative joint disease, the most common form of arthritis, especially in older persons. The disease is thought to result not from the aging process but from biochemical changes and biomechanical stresses affecting articular cartilage. In the foreign literature it is often called osteoarthrosis deformans.
| Descriptor ID |
D010003
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C05.550.114.606 C05.799.613
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| Concept/Terms |
Osteoarthritis- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoarthritides
- Osteoarthrosis
- Osteoarthroses
- Arthritis, Degenerative
- Arthritides, Degenerative
- Degenerative Arthritides
- Degenerative Arthritis
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Osteoarthritis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Osteoarthritis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1995 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1998 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 1999 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2001 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2003 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2004 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2006 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2007 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2008 | 4 | 3 | 7 | | 2009 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2010 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2011 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2012 | 5 | 0 | 5 | | 2013 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2014 | 5 | 0 | 5 | | 2015 | 4 | 4 | 8 | | 2016 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 2017 | 7 | 0 | 7 | | 2018 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 2019 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2020 | 8 | 0 | 8 | | 2021 | 7 | 0 | 7 | | 2022 | 8 | 0 | 8 | | 2023 | 9 | 0 | 9 | | 2024 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2025 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Osteoarthritis" by people in Profiles.
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Wang C, Fang L, Shi M, Niu X, Li T, Li X, Cho K, He Y, Liu S, Lu A, Xing X, Lukowski J, Goo YA, Speakman JR, Chen D, O'Keefe RJ, Patti GJ, Zuscik MJ, Zhang B, Shen J. NFIA regulates articular chondrocyte fatty acid metabolism and joint homeostasis. Sci Transl Med. 2025 Jul 30; 17(809):eadm9488.
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Matthias J, Buckley S, David M, Ackert-Bicknell CL, Metzl JA, Moon DK, Miller C, Zuscik MJ, Hunt KJ. Synovial Dysregulation in Ankle Osteoarthritis: Molecular Insights and Pathogenetic Pathways. J Orthop Res. 2025 Oct; 43(10):1736-1747.
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Rahman MM, Watton PN, Neu CP, Pierce DM. Predicting the heterogeneous chemo-mechano-biological degeneration of cartilage using 3-D biphasic finite elements. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2025 Oct; 270:108902.
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Buck AN, Gross DC, Kim JJ, Rauff EL, Dinallo JM, Abbate LM, Schwartz TA, Beresic NJ, Newman CB, Shultz SP. BMI-Specific Nutritional Education Priorities for Weight Management in Osteoarthritis. Nutrients. 2025 Jun 20; 17(13).
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Van Zeeland EM, Kassel B, Montoya T, Saviola AJ, Burton LH, Easley JT, Nelson BB, Santangelo KS, Sikes KJ. Structural, functional, and proteomic based sex differences in murine post-traumatic osteoarthritis development following mechanical anterior cruciate ligament injury. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 Aug; 33(8):992-1006.
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Hendesi H, Villani DA, Prawitt J, Gill AL, Abdo Z, Santangelo KS, Pezzanite L, Gill SR, Zuscik MJ. Gut and Joint Microbiomes: Implications in Osteoarthritis. Rheum Dis Clin North Am. 2025 05; 51(2):295-324.
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Ryan M, Megyeri S, Nuffer W, Trujillo JM. The potential role of GLP-1 receptor agonists in osteoarthritis. Pharmacotherapy. 2025 Mar; 45(3):177-186.
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Scanzello CR, Hasty KA, Chung CB, Griffin TM, Willet NJ, Krug H, Chu CQ, Ewart D, Jerban S, Baker JF, Duvall CL, Brunger JM, Burdick JA, Spindler KP, Drissi H. Teaming up to overcome challenges toward translation of new therapeutics for osteoarthritis. J Orthop Res. 2024 Dec; 42(12):2659-2672.
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Timkovich AE, Holling GA, Afzali MF, Kisiday J, Santangelo KS. TLR4 antagonism provides short-term but not long-term clinical benefit in a full-depth cartilage defect mouse model. Connect Tissue Res. 2024 01; 65(1):26-40.
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Spierenburg G, Staals EL, Palmerini E, Randall RL, Thorpe SW, Wunder JS, Ferguson PC, Verspoor FGM, Houdek MT, Bernthal NM, Schreuder BHWB, Gelderblom H, van de Sande MAJ, van der Heijden L. Active surveillance of diffuse-type tenosynovial giant cell tumors: A retrospective, multicenter cohort study. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2024 Feb; 50(2):107953.
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