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Immortalized human adult articular chondrocytes maintain cartilage-specific phenotype and responses to interleukin-1beta.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Oct 2000
Robbins J R, Thomas B, Tan L, Choy B, Arbiser J L, Berenbaum F, Goldring M B
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OBJECTIVE: To develop a reproducible immortalized human chondrocyte culture model for studying the regulation of chondrocyte functions relevant to arthritic diseases in adult humans. METHODS: Primary adult articular chondrocytes were immortalized with a retrovirus expressing a temperature-sensitive mutant of SV40-large T antigen (tsTAg). The established tsT/AC62 chondrocyte cell line was examined in monolayer and...
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