A rat chondrosarcoma cell line and primary bovine chondrocytes have been used to study cell-mediated aggrecan catabolism. Addition of 1 microM retinoic acid to chondrosarcoma cultures resulted in aggrecan proteolysis with the release of greater than 90% of the cell layer aggrecan into the medium wit...
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