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Horses and cows might teach us about human knees

Overview of attention for article published in The Science of Nature, March 2014
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Title
Horses and cows might teach us about human knees
Published in
The Science of Nature, March 2014
DOI 10.1007/s00114-014-1163-5
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Authors

C. Holland, F. Vollrath, H. S. Gill

Abstract

Our comparative study of the knees of horses and cows (paraphrased as highly evolved joggers and as domesticated couch-potatoes, respectively) demonstrates significant differences in the posterior sections of bovine and equine tibial cartilage, which are consistent with specialisation for gait. These insights were possible using a novel analytical measuring technique based on the shearing of small biopsy samples, called dynamic shear analysis. We assert that this technique could provide a powerful new tool to precisely quantify the pathology of osteoarthritis for the medical field.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 4%
Unknown 25 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 27%
Student > Master 6 23%
Other 2 8%
Student > Postgraduate 2 8%
Researcher 2 8%
Other 3 12%
Unknown 4 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 7 27%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 4%
Mathematics 1 4%
Other 2 8%
Unknown 7 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 April 2014.
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#6,965,069
of 24,542,484 outputs
Outputs from The Science of Nature
#729
of 2,236 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#62,835
of 227,097 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Science of Nature
#17
of 42 outputs
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