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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Gene. 2008 May 9;420(1):82–89. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.04.019

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Comparison of bFGF and FGF-18 in adult articular cartilage and/or IVD homeostasis. Basic FGF mainly activates FGFR1 while FGF-18 activates FGFR3 to exert distinctive biological effects in both adult articular cartilage and IVD.