Oxygen and reactive oxygen species in cartilage degradation: friends or foes?

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage - Tập 13 Số 8 - Trang 643-654 - 2005
Yves Henrotin1, Bodo Kurz2, Thomas Aigner3
1Bone and Cartilage Research Unit, University of Liège, Institute of pathology, Level +5, CHU Sart-Tilman, 4000 Liège, Belgium
2Institute of Anatomy, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, 24098 Kiel, Germany.
3Osteoarticular and Arthritis Research Group, Department of Pathology, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

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