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Expression and Regulation of the Osteoarthritis-associated Protein Asporin
6 Sept 2007
Abstract excerpt
Asporin (ASPN) is a small leucine-rich proteoglycan that is involved in pathological processes of osteoarthritis. Previously, we showed that asporin can inhibit transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1)-mediated expression of cartilage matrix genes and chondrogenesis in vitro (Kizawa, H., Kou, I., Iida, A., Sudo, A., Miyamoto, Y., Fukuda, A., Mabuchi, A., Kotani, A., Kawakami, A., Yamamoto, S., Uchida, A.,...
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