Anti-Inflammatory and Joint-Protective Effects of Blueberries in a Monosodium Iodoacetate (MIA)-Induced Rat Model of Osteoarthritis

South SM, Crabtree K, Averitt DL, Vijayagopal P, Juma S · Nutrients

Joint protection and lower inflammatory markers in the model, from the group that ran the human blueberry trial — which makes it the animal half of a programme rather than an unrelated result.

Population

Rats with monosodium iodoacetate-induced knee osteoarthritis

Intervention

Dietary blueberry

Comparator

Control diet

Limitations

Chemically induced rat OA. Same laboratory as the human trial, so not independent.