Aggrecan degradation in health and disease

The main aggrecan catabolite, found in samples of synovial fluid from patients with arthritis, and released from cartilage explant cultures exposed to IL-1, both have the amino-terminal amino acid sequence 374ARGSV ... (human sequence enumeration) corresponding to cleavage at the 'aggrecanase s...

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Main Author: Rees, Alison Jane
Published: Cardiff University 2004
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.583487