Figure 5.

Protein expression of inflammation-related mediators, MMPs, and tendon-related markers in rat primary tenocytes via CD44 blockage. A, expression of COL1A1, COL3A1, tnmd, COX-2, MMP-1, and MMP-3 in OX-50–treated rat primary tenocytes for 72 h, as determined by immunoblotting. B, expression of IL-6 in the supernatant of OX-50–treated rat primary tenocytes for 72 h, as determined by ELISA. Results are representative of at least two independent experiments. See the legend to Fig. 3 for other definitions. Error bars, S.E.