Research Article

Cartilage Dysfunction in ALS Patients as Side Effect of Motion Loss: 3D Mechano-Electrochemical Computational Model

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(a) Surface displacement obtained with the 3D computational model as a function of tissue FCD. The rest of the model parameters are included in Table 2. (b) Details of the initial swelling delay phenomenon of cartilage associated with a nominal shrinking within the first 40 seconds of computational simulation considering the parameters collected in Table 2, while the specific concentration of FCD shown in the same figure. (c) Surface displacement obtained with the 3D computational model as a function of tissue initial water content ( ). (d) Surface displacement obtained with the 3D computational model as a function of the osmotic coefficient.
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