Journal: Biomedicines
Article Title: Comparison of Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy with Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Intra-Articular Hyaluronic Acid Injection for Early Osteoarthritis of the Knees
doi: 10.3390/biomedicines10020202
Figure Lengend Snippet: The results of blood tests between three groups before and after treatment.
Article Snippet: The serum levels of cartilage oligometric protein (COMP) (DCMP0, R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA), C-telopeptide of type II collagen (CTX-II) (CSB-E14328h, Cusabio Biotech Co., College Park, MD, USA), alkaline phosphatase (ALK-p) (DY370-05, R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA), osteocalcin (BMS2020INST, Gibco Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA), and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) (DG100B, R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN, USA) were measured by ELISA kit.
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