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Focal Adhesion Assembly Induces Phenotypic Changes and Dedifferentiation in Chondrocytes.
Journal of cellular physiology - 1 Aug 2016
Shin Hyunjun, Lee Mi Nam, Choung Jin Seung, Kim Sanghee, Choi Byung Hyune, Noh Minsoo, Shin Jennifer H
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The expansion of autologous chondrocytes in vitro is used to generate sufficient populations for cell-based therapies. However, during monolayer culture, chondrocytes lose inherent characteristics and shift to fibroblast-like cells as passage number increase. Here, we investigated passage-dependent changes in cellular physiology, including cellular morphology, motility, and gene and protein expression, as well as...
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