Kamini Nagandran Nagandran1, Chua Kien Hui3, Nor Hamdan Md ...

Induction with HMG and EHMG extractscompared to control0.5%HMG 1.17-folds1%HMG 1.10-folds0.5%EHMG 1.16-folds1%EHMG 1.10-foldsHollander et al., 1995 mentioned thattype I collagen is found in theperichondrium and not usually detectedin the cartilage matrix. Type I collagen isa major collagen found in the bone.In this study, type I collagen expression is much higher compared to thetype II collagen expression.Ruszymah et al., 2005 also reported that freshly isolated chondrocytesshowed higher type II collagen expression but gradually replaced by hightype I collagen expression.