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SUBMITTER: Goutas A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7464519 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Goutas Andreas A Papathanasiou Ioanna I Mourmoura Evanthia E Tsesmelis Konstantinos K Tsezou Aspasia A Trachana Varvara V
Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) 20200818 8
Oxidative stress (OS) has been linked to the aetiology of many diseases including osteoarthritis (OA). Recent studies have shown that caveolin-1-a structural protein of plasma membrane's caveolae-is upregulated in response to OS. Here, we explore the function of caveolin-1 in chondrocytes derived from healthy individuals (control) and OA patients that were subjected to exogenous OS. We showed that caveolin-1 was upregulated in response to acute OS in the control, but not in OA chondrocytes. More ...[more]