Table II.

Primer sequences and PCR product lengths.

Primer	Sequence 5′-3′ direction	NCBI Accession	PCR product length (bp)
MMP-13	F GTTATCTGAACTGGATT	AF059201	147
	R TCTAGGGTAGTCTTGGTC
GAPDH	F GGTCGGAGTGAACGGATTT	NM_001082253	226
	R CTCGCTCCTGGAAGATGG

All accession numbers refer to those on the NCBI database, and are sequenced from rabbits. PCR, polmerase chain reaction; NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information (US); MMP-13, matrix metalloproteinase-13; GAPDH, glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase.