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. 2020 Feb 25;21(5):1560. doi: 10.3390/ijms21051560

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Therapeutic targeting of posttraumatic pathomechanisms. The behavior and fate of chondrocytes might be modulated on different levels: upstream, the attenuation or elimination of harmful triggers and mediators (indirect modulation); downstream, addressing the cellular response itself by selective inhibition of unwanted processes or chondroanabolic stimulation (direct modulation).