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Primary culture and phenotyping of murine chondrocytes.
Nature protocols - 1 Jan 2008
Gosset Marjolaine, Berenbaum Francis, Thirion Sylvie, Jacques Claire
Abstract excerpt
The culture of chondrocytes is one of the most powerful tools for exploring the intracellular and molecular features of chondrocyte differentiation and activation. However, chondrocytes tend to dedifferentiate into fibroblasts when they are subcultured, which is a major problem. This protocol, involving primary cultures to limit dedifferentiation, describes two different methods for culturing chondrocytes of...
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