BookAli Mobasheri [and others].
Summary: Articular cartilage is a unique and highly specialized avascular connective tissue in which the availability of oxygen and glucose is significantly lower than synovial fluid and plasma. Glucose is an essential source of energy during embryonic growth and fetal development and is vital for mesenchymal cell differentiation, chondrogenesis and skeletal morphogenesis. Glucose is an important metabolic fuel for differentiated chondrocytes during post-natal development and in adult articular cartilage and is a common structural precursor for the synthesis of extracellular matrix glycosaminoglycans.
Contents:
Introduction
Articular cartilage: structure, function and pathophysiology
Does arthritis have a nutritional aetiology?
Metabolic dysfunction in arthritis
Glucose: an essential metabolite and structural precursor for articular cartilage
Mammalian sugar transporter families: GLUT and SGLT
Molecular diversity of facilitative glucose transporters in articular chondrocytes
Regulation of glucose transport by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
Glucose transporters in the intervertebral disc
Glucose transporter expression and regulation in embryonic and mesenchymal stem cells
Concluding remarks.