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Metformin attenuates symptoms of osteoarthritis: role of genetic diversity of Bcl2 and CXCL16 in OA.
Arthritis research & therapy - 7 Mar 2023
Alimoradi Nahid, Tahami Mohammad, Firouzabadi Negar, Haem Elham, Ramezani Amin
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OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of metformin versus placebo in overweight patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). In addition, to assess the effects of inflammatory mediators and apoptotic proteins in the pathogenesis of OA, the genetic polymorphisms of two genes, one related to apoptosis (rs2279115 of Bcl-2) and the other related to inflammation (rs2277680 of CXCL-16), were...
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