MULTIFACTORINESS OF THE MECHANISMS OF ACTION OF NONSTEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUGS IN OSTEOARTHROSIS

Abstract

The paper presents the current views of the effects of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on the mechanisms of development of inflammation in osteoarthrosis and their action on the metabolism of chondrocytes and extracellular substance of the articular cartilage. It also gives the results of numerous studies of the efficacy and safety of meloxicam in osteoarthrosis and the data supporting its chondroprotective properties

Keywords

• osteoarthrosis
• nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
• movalis