[Collagen from human joint cartilage in deforming arthritis]. / Kollagen sustavnogo khriashcha cheloveka pri deformiruiushchem artroze.

Type II collagen of human cartilage has been comparatively studied in norm and at deforming arthrosis. Collagen preparations are characterized by aminoacid composition and electrophoretic mobility in polyacrylamide gel. It is supposed that at deforming arthrosis the degenerative-dystrophic processes in the articular cartilage of man are caused by appearance of procollagen.

[Changes in the synovial medium in deforming gonarthrosis]. / Izmeneniia sinovial'noi sredy pri deformiruiushchem gonarthroze.

The authors have determined the changes in the synovial medium of the joint characteristic of various stages of severity of the disease in 248 patients with deforming gonarthrosis on the basis of arthroscopic and thermographic studies and investigation of the permeability of the synovial membrane in the complex with clinical and roentgenologic examinations. At the initial stages the signs of local reactive inflammation of the synovial membrane near the foci of degeneration of the articular cartilage prevail. For the late stages a trend to spreading of the reactive inflammation of the synovial membrane with the development of sclerotic changes in the previously affected areas is characteristic. A comparison of the results of arthroscopy, infra-red thermography and the permeability of the synovial membrane point at parallel changes in the synovial medium and in the microcirculatory and regional circulation of the knee joint. These findings may be used for working out the rational tactics of treatment of the patients with deforming gonarthrosis.

[Pathogenesis of arthrosis deformans of the knee joint]. / K voprosu o patogeneze deformiruiushchego artroza kolennogo sustava.

The authors have studied the biochemical characteristics (type, aminoacid composition, carbohydrate component content) of the collagene proteins in the articular cartilage in normal conditions and in various expression of deforming arthrosis of the knee joint. The results (collagen of the its type formation, disturbances in the aminoacid composition of collagen of the 1st and 2nd types, changes in the carbohydrate component content, accumulation of procollagen of type 2) allowed to suggest that already at the early stages of development of deforming arthrosis there are distortion of synthesis and disturbance in postsynthetic transformations of the collagen proteins of hyaline cartilaginous tissue which lead to disturbances in the structure and in the function of the matrix and progressive degradation of the articular cartilage.