After the chondroblasts cover themselves in cartilage matrix, they turn into chondrocytes.

They turn into chondroblasts - cells that secrete cartilage matrix.

Sulfatases are essential for the correct composition of bone and cartilage matrix.

The chondrocytes keep dividing while new chondroblasts continue to make cartilage matrix, causing the cartilage to grow.

Osteoblasts are just like chondroblasts, but they secrete bone matrix instead of cartilage matrix.

TGFβ1 regenerates the cartilage matrix tissue.

Strontium ranelate increases cartilage matrix formation.

Chondronectin is a cartilage matrix protein that specifically mediates the attachment of chondrocytes to type II collagen.

The results suggest that elevated TGF-β1 expression confers adverse joint pathology including an increase in cartilage matrix degradation without stimulating new matrix synthesis.

Hyaline cartilage matrix is mostly made up of type II collagen and Chondroitin sulfate, both of which are also found in elastic cartilage.

Taken together, these results suggest that intra-articular expression of TGF-β1 stimulated cartilage matrix degradation while having only a minor effect on the promotion of new matrix synthesis.

Matrilin 1, cartilage matrix protein, also known as MATN1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the MATN1 gene.

Among all candidates listed below Proteins that block the actions of interleukin-1 (IL-1) or that promote the synthesis of cartilage matrix molecules have received the most experimental scurity.

It is often used in reference to transplants (such as the historic xenographic heart transplants that were attempted unsuccessfully), or the more successful cartilage matrix transplants that are studied today.

Otani and colleagues [ 16 ] , in contrast, observed a dramatic beneficial effect on cartilage matrix metabolism, and a moderate anti-inflammatory effect when administering IL-1Ra locally to joints via ex vivo gene transfer.

Mallory's trichrome method, using acid fuchsine followed by a solution containing PTA, orange G and aniline blue, provides dark red nuclei, orange erythrocytes, and blue collagen fibres, cartilage matrix and mucus.

Several metalloproteinases that are capable of the proteolytic degradation of extracellular matrix are thought to play a major role in the dissolution of the bone and cartilage matrix, allowing the invasive cells to migrate into the stroma across cell boundaries.

Studies in 2006 showed evidence of a linkage between idiopathic scoliosis and three microsatellite polymorphisms in the MATN1 gene (encoding for Matrilin 1, cartilage matrix protein), respectively consisting of 103, 101 and 99 base pairs, .