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Follistatin Alleviates Synovitis and Articular Cartilage Degeneration Induced by Carrageenan

Activins are proinflammatory cytokines which belong to the TGFβ superfamily. Follistatin is an extracellular decoy receptor for activins. Since both activins and follistatin are expressed in articular cartilage, we hypothesized that activin-follistatin signaling participates in the process of joint...

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Autores principales: Yamada, Jun, Tsuji, Kunikazu, Miyatake, Kazumasa, Matsukura, Yu, Abula, Kahaer, Inoue, Makiko, Sekiya, Ichiro, Muneta, Takeshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4276300/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25574420
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/959271