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Table 3 Chondrogenic markers

From: Transcriptional profiling of bovine intervertebral disc cells: implications for identification of normal and degenerate human intervertebral disc cell phenotypes

Gene description

Gene symbol

AC mean

AF mean

NP mean

Fold change (NP/AC)

Fold change (NP/AF)

Fold change (NP/AC&AF)

collagen, type I, alpha 1

COL1A1

21.11

2716.16

260.02

12.32

-10.45

-6.77

collagen, type I, alpha 2

COL1A2

1009.68

15436.11

1330.31

1.32

-11.60

-6.51

collagen, type II, alpha 1

COL2A1

13485.23

13260.79

4436.71

-3.04

-2.99

-3.12

SRY-box 9

SOX9

49.26

8.47

60.38

1.23

7.13

1.86

aggrecan

ACAN

2852.28

168.13

2467.99

-1.16

14.68

1.09

versican

VCAN

21.36

1109.99

1864.91

87.30

1.68

2.59

  1. Bovine microarray data for typical chondrogenic markers. Mean fluorescence intensity expression is shown for each cell type (AC, AF and NP) along with the calculated fold change values. AC, articular cartilage; AF, annulus fibrosus; NP, nucleus pulposus.