Table 1.

List of primers used in qPCR for chondrogenic genes (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucleotide).

Chondrogenic Gene	Gene Bank Accession No.	Primer sequences
Human Collagen Type I, Col I	NM_000088	F: 5′-agg gct cca acg aga tcg aga-3′R: 5′-tac agg aag cag aca ggg cca-3′
Human Collagen Type II, Col II	NM_001844	F: 5′-cta tct gga cga agc agc tgg ca-3′R: 5′-atg ggt gca atg tca atg atg g-3′
Human Collagen Type X, Col X	NM_000493	F: 5′-gct aag ggt gaa agg ggt tc-3′R: 5′-ctc cag gat cac ctt ttg ga-3′
Human Collagen Type XI, Col XI	NM_080681	F: 5′-agc agg ggg tga gac ctg tg -3′R: 5′-tgc tcc aga gca ggg gta gg-3′
Human Aggrecan Core Protein, ACP	NM_001135	F: 5′-cac tgt tac cgc cac ttc cc-3′R: 5′-acc agc gga agt ccc ctt cg-3′
Human Sox9, SOX9	NM_000346	F: 5′-gcg gag gaa gtc ggt gaa ga-3′R: 5′-ccc tct cgc ttc agg tca gc-3′
Cartilage Oligomeric Protein, COMP	NM_000095	F: 5′-aac tca ggg cag gag gat gt-3′R: 5′-tgt cct ttt ggt cgt cgt tc-3
ELASTIN	NM_000501	F: 5′-ggc ctg gag gca aac ctc tt-3′R: 5′-cca cca act cct ggg aca cc-3′
GAPDH	NM_002046	F: 5′-tcc ctg agc tga acg gga ag-3′R: 5′-gga gga gtg ggt gtc gct gt-3′