Alternative messenger RNA splicing and enzyme forms of cathepsin B in human osteoarthritic cartilage and cultured chondrocytes

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1819-1831

  Berardi, Simona ^a   Lang, Angela ^a   Kostoulas, Georgios ^b   Hörler, Dorothy ^b   Vilei, Edy M ^b   Baici, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN B; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING;

AGED; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CARTILAGE; CATHEPSIN B; CELLS, CULTURED; CHONDROCYTES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISOENZYMES; OSTEOARTHRITIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0034890869     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200108)44:8<1819::AID-ART319>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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