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From: Hypoxia promotes redifferentiation and suppresses markers of hypertrophy and degeneration in both healthy and osteoarthritic chondrocytes

Figure 5

Oxygen-dependent expression of aggrecanases in healthy and osteoarthritic chondrocytes. The relative gene expression levels of ADAMTS4 (A) and ADAMTS5 (B) in pellet cultures following 2 wk of redifferentiation in either 20% oxygen (gray bars) or 2% oxygen (white bars) were analyzed by real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction. All values are the mean mRNA levels normalized to 18S ribosomal RNA for chondrocyte pellets from n = 5 donors. Error bars represent 1 SD. Statistical significance was determined by performing independent t-tests (between disease conditions) and paired t-tests (between oxygen levels). *P < 0.05.

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