Resilience to height loss of articular cartilage of osteoarthritic stifle joints of old pigs, compared with healthy cartilage from young pigs in a tribological pin—on—plate exposure, revealing similar friction forces

• Jan P. Engelhardt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Oberlinklinik gGmbH, Specialist Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery, Potsdam, Germany

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

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• Andy Schütte,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

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• Svetlana Hetjens,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Statistics, University Medicine Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

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• Gregor Reisig,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

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• Markus L. Schwarz

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: markus.schwarz@medma.uni-heidelberg.de

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Medical Faculty Mannheim of the University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0209-922X

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