Mud pack therapy in osteoarthrosis. Changes in serum levels of chondrocyte markers
Affiliations:
(1) Center of Thermal Studies Pietro d'Abano, Abano Terme.
(2) Clinical Chemistry Laboratory, Institute `G. Pini'
(3) Institute of Laboratory Medicine, University of Padova
Source: Clin Chim Acta. 1997 Dec 10;268(1-2):101-6
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-8981(97)00171-X
Publication date:
Dec. 10, 1997
E-Publication date:
Feb. 19, 1998
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Copyright: Copyright © 1997 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Language: English
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Article abstract
We have previously shown that thermal mud therapy is able to influence chondrocyte activity of osteoarthrosic patients by modulating the production of serum cytokines, such as interleukin 1, and this was related to the presence of an anti-inflammatory principle in mature thermal mud. Mud therapy influences many biochemical processes of the body, independently of the thermic stimulation alone and the present paper documents specific increases of insulin growth factor 1 and decreases of tumor necrosis factor alpha in serum of osteoarthrosic patients after 12 days of mud pack application.