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In Vitro Impact Model to Generate Sublethal Chondrocyte Injury in Bovine Cartilage Explants
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Effect of a glucosamine derivative on impact-induced chondrocyte apoptosis in vitro. A preliminary report
1Comparative Orthopaedics Research Lab, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
|July 24, 2007
Abstract:
Here, we report that a lipophilic derivative of glucosamine, Glu5, is able to prevent impact-induced chondrocyte death by the putative mechanism of reducing mitochondrial depolarisation following a single impact load in vitro.
