Steroids salvage cartilage
A commonly used glucocorticoid steroid drug called dexamethasone can stifle breakdown of cartilage damaged by injury, a new study suggests. Scientists at MIT and Harvard Medical School obtained cartilage from a human cadaver and from cows and damaged the tissue in a lab to simulate injury.
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