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Identification and characterization of arginase II as a chondrocyte phenotype-specific gene.
IUBMB life - 1 Oct 2006
Ko Ah-Ra, Huh Yun-Hyun, Lee Hyun-Chae, Song Woo-Keun, Lee Young-Sup, Chun Jang-Soo
Abstract excerpt
We have previously shown that activation of extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase-1 and -2 (ERK1/2) causes chondrocyte dedifferentiation, which contributes to the destruction of arthritic cartilage. In the present study, we identified genes involved in the ERK1/2 regulation of chondrocyte dedifferentiation. Several genes were identified by subtractive hybridization, and, of these, arginase II was selected...
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