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Osteoarthritis-like changes in the heterozygous sedc mouse associated with the HtrA1-Ddr2-Mmp-13 degradative pathway: a new model of osteoarthritis.
Osteoarthritis and cartilage - 1 May 2012
Holt D W, Henderson M L, Stockdale C E, Farrell J T, Kooyman D L, Bridgewater L C, Seegmiller R E
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OBJECTIVE: To test the hypothesis that the spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (sedc) heterozygous (sedc/+) mouse, a COL2A1 mutant, is a model for the study of osteoarthritis (OA) in the absence of dwarfism and to investigate the presence of HtrA1, Ddr2, and Mmp-13 and their possible involvement in a universal mechanism leading to OA. DESIGN: Whole mount skeletons of adult animals were analyzed to determine...
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