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From: UDP-glucose dehydrogenase modulates proteoglycan synthesis in articular chondrocytes: its possible involvement and regulation in osteoarthritis

Figure 2

Histopathology assay of human and rat osteoarthritis (OA) cartilage. Human cartilage from the tibial plateau of OA patients was collected, and the rat OA model was induced. Human OA cartilage was divided as microscopically normal cartilage (MNC) and degenerative cartilage (DC). The former was defined as the control, and the latter as OA cartilage. HE staining (A-D) and Safranin O staining (E-H) was performed. UDP-glucose dehydrogenase (UGDH) protein level was detected using immunohistochemical (IHC) assay (I, L) and presented as mean optical density of each chondrocytes using NIS-Elements software (Nikon, Tokyo, Japan), and the modified Mankin score system was applied to grade the degree of OA. Cartilage samples from 11 knees were included in the pathological analysis. Then, correlation between the Mankin score and UGDH protein level of human and rat cartilage (M, N) was performed. Scale bars, 100 μm.

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