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IT is well known that with ageing, lipid material appears in the matrix of hyaline cartilage in the immediate vicinity of the cells, in the form of ‘haloes’ around the lacunae1. In the course of a histochemical and quantitative investigation of the lipid content of human cartilage, it has been observed that a more diffuse impregnation with fat occurs with ageing in the superficial zone of articular hyaline cartilage.
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STOCKWELL, R. Lipid in the Matrix of Ageing Articular Cartilage. Nature 207, 427–428 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207427a0
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