Lowther D A, Handley C J, Gundalach A
Pharmacology. 1978;17(1):50-55. doi: 10.1159/000136834.
An organ culture system was used to study the metabolic effects of exposure of articular cartilage to increasing concentrations of salicylic acid. It was shown that concentration of salicylate above 1 mM inhibited the incorporation of 35S-sulphate into proteoglycans and at concentrations above 2.5 mM inhibited the incorporation of 3H-proline into collagen. Long-term exposure of the cartilage to salicylic acid at concentrations above 1 mM had a toxic effect on both proteoglycan and collagen synthesis.
