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Up-regulation of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein at the onset of articular cartilage degeneration in a transgenic mouse model of osteoarthritis.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Aug 2000
Salminen H, Perälä M, Lorenzo P, Saxne T, Heinegård D, Säämänen A M, Vuorio E
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the suitability of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) as a marker for articular cartilage degeneration in a transgenic mouse model of osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS: Northern blot analysis of total RNA extracted from the knee joints of transgenic Del1 mice, which harbor a short deletion in a type II collagen transgene, and of their nontransgenic littermates was used to monitor...
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