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Friday, 1 April 2016

image based Q.29 - Inside Articular Cartilage

Q. - An artistic presentation of microstructure of human articular cartilage is depicted below along with a zoomed version of a portion of it. What the orange line in this picture represents?




1. Proteoglycan
2. Collagen
3. Branched protein
4. Hyaluronic acid










































Answer -  4


Proteoglycal aggrecan molecules with negative charge are arranged in the 'backbone' of hyaluronic acid. They interact with positive charge of water molecule that constitute a major part of cartilage.

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