Endogenous adenosine maintains cartilage homeostasis and exogenous adenosine inhibits osteoarthritis progression
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15019
Abstract: Osteoarthritis (OA) is characterized by cartilage destruction and chondrocytes have a central role in this process. With age and inflammation chondrocytes have reduced capacity to synthesize and maintain ATP, a molecule important for cartilage homeostasis.… read more here.
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