ArticleJournal of anatomy2017
Osteoarthritis in two marine mammals and 22 land mammals: learning from skeletal remains.
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- A Beginner's Guide for Using Bone in Marine Mammal Research.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Guideline
- Risk Factors for Canine Osteoarthritis and Its Predisposing Arthropathies: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2020Pooled it
- How aging causes osteoarthritis: An evolutionary physiology perspective.Osteoarthritis and cartilage · 2025Review
- Chronic osteoarthritis caused byJournal of veterinary diagnostic investigation : official publication of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Inc · 2024Article
- Synovial fluid extracellular vesicles as arthritis biomarkers: the added value of lipid-profiling and integrated omics.Extracellular vesicles and circulating nucleic acids · 2024Review
- Microstructural differences in the osteochondral unit of terrestrial and aquatic mammals.eLife · 2023Article
- Mechanical osteoarthritis of the hip in a one medicine concept: a narrative review.BMC veterinary research · 2023Review
- Knee Joint Osteoarthritis in Overweight Cats: The Clinical and Radiographic Findings.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Regenerative Effect of Mesenchymal Stem Cell on Cartilage Damage in a Porcine Model.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Establishment of an ultrasound-guided protocol for the assessment of hip joint osteoarthritis in rabbits-A sonoanatomic study.PloS one · 2023Article
- Effects of reduced mobility on trabecular bone density in captive big cats.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
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Abstract
The occurrence of osteoarthritis (OA) in marine mammals is still questionable. Here we investigated the prevalence of OA in marine (dolphin and dugong) and terrestrial mammals (Asian elephant, Asiatic buffalo, camel, cat, cattle, deer, dog, domestic goat, horse, human, hyena, impala, lion, Malayan tapir, Assam macaque, mule, pig, rabbit, red kangaroo, sheep, tiger and waterbuck). Skeletal remains obtained from five institutes were used as subjects; a total of 45 different parts (locations) of bones were observed for OA lesions. The prevalence of OA was reported as number of OA lesions/total number of bones. Our results revealed that the presence of OA in marine species (dolphin and dugong) was 2.44% and 3.33%, respectively. In dolphins, the highest OA occurrence was on the left and right humeral trochlea, with 13.68% and 12.63%, respectively, while the highest number of OA lesions in dugongs was on the lumbar vertebrae (8.79%). No significant difference (P > 0.05) in the prevalence of OA between sexes in dolphins and dugongs was observed, but we found a significant difference (P < 0.05) in 24 bone locations of human bones, which had the highest OA prevalence (48.93%), followed by dogs (3.94%). In conclusion, OA can occur in marine mammals, similar to terrestrial mammals, even though their natural habitat is the ocean.
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