Figure 7.

Silencing of CD24 does not affect the transcription of chondrogenic ECM proteins in U‐CH1‐N cells. Quantitative RT‐PCR analysis using the transcripts collected from U‐CH1‐N cells transduced with LV‐GFP and LV‐Sh‐CD24. The expression level of each gene is normalized to that of β‐actin. The relative expression level of each gene in U‐CH1‐N cells transduced with LV‐GFP is set to one. Data are represented as mean ± SEM of three independent experiments performed in triplicate (n = 3); *p < 0.05; ns, not significant.