Cartilage and Bone Serum Biomarkers as Novel Tools for Monitoring Knee Osteochondritis Dissecans Treated with Osteochondral Scaffold

<table class="fixed-width table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><colgroup><col style="width:11.28em"/><col style="width:24.22em"/><col style="width:9.98em"/></colgroup><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left"><b>SERUM BIOMARKERS</b></td><td class="align_center"><b>NAME</b></td><td class="align_center"><b>INVOLVEMENT</b></td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><b>C2C</b></td><td class="align_center">Human Collagen type II cleavage</td><td class="align_center">Cartilage degradation</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><b>CTXII</b></td><td class="align_center">Human Cross-Linked C-Telopeptides of Type II Collagen</td><td class="align_center">Cartilage degradation</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><b>CPII</b></td><td class="align_center">Human Procollagen II C-propeptide</td><td class="align_center">Cartilage synthesis</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><b>TRAP5b</b></td><td class="align_center">Human Tartrate Resistant Alkaline Phosphatase</td><td class="align_center">Bone degradation</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left"><b>OC</b></td><td class="align_center">Human Osteocalcin</td><td class="align_center">Bone synthesis</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Serum biomarker characteristics.</div>

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Table 2: Cartilage and Bone Serum Biomarkers as Novel Tools for Monitoring Knee Osteochondritis Dissecans Treated with Osteochondral Scaffold 