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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 21.
Published in final edited form as: Rheumatology (Sunnyvale). 2012 Dec 26;2:113. doi: 10.4172/2161-1149.1000113

Table 2.

The frequency of TUNEL-Positive Nuclei in normal juvenile chondrocyte macroaggregate pellet cultures.

Group Control rhTNF-α AG-490 rhTNF-α + AG-490 MSU MSU + AG-490
Total Cells 489 522 523 491 548 555
TUNEL +ve (%) 166 492 463 443 500 530
TUNEL +ve (%) 33.9 94.3 88.5 90.2 91.2 95.4
Δ (%) +178% +161% +166% +169% +181%

TUNEL positive (TUNEL +ve) chondrocytes were enumerated from computer-assisted enhanced images