{"id":30559,"date":"2016-09-27T12:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T19:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/nanoparticle-injections-may-be-future-of-osteoarthritis-treatment"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:33:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:33:23","slug":"nanoparticle-injections-may-be-future-of-osteoarthritis-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/nanoparticle-injections-may-be-future-of-osteoarthritis-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticle injections may be future of osteoarthritis treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoparticle-injections-may-be-future-of-osteoarthritis-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Osteoarthritis is a debilitating condition that affects at least 27 million people in the United States, and at least 12 percent of osteoarthritis cases stem from earlier injuries. Over-the-counter painkillers, such as anti-inflammatory drugs, help reduce pain but do not stop unrelenting cartilage destruction. Consequently, pain related to the condition only gets worse.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown that they can inject <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/nanoparticles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nanoparticles<\/a> into injured joints in mice and suppress inflammation immediately following an injury, reducing the destruction of cartilage.<\/p>\n<p>The findings are reported online Sept. 26 in the early edition of the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-09-nanoparticle-future-osteoarthritis-treatment.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;09-nanoparticle-future-osteoar...tment.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osteoarthritis is a debilitating condition that affects at least 27 million people in the United States, and at least 12 percent of osteoarthritis cases stem from earlier injuries. Over-the-counter painkillers, such as anti-inflammatory drugs, help reduce pain but do not stop unrelenting cartilage destruction. Consequently, pain related to the condition only gets worse. Now, researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49819,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30559\/revisions\/49819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}