Andrew Blease, Patricia Das Neves Borges, Marcia Curtinha, Behzad Javaheri, Isabell S von Loga, Ida Parisi, Jadwiga Zarebska, Andrew Pitsillides, Tonia L Vincent, Paul K Potter
With the increasing availability and complexity of mouse models of disease, either spontaneous or induced, there is a concomitant increase in their use in the analysis of pathogenesis. Among such diseases is osteoarthritis, a debilitating disease with few treatment options. While advances in our understanding of the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis has advanced through clinical investigations and genome-wide association studies, there is still a large gap in our knowledge, hindering advances in therapy. Patient samples are available ex vivo, but these are generally in the very late stages of disease...
September 21, 2018: Current Protocols in Mouse Biology