… chondrocyte biology, and, in particular, their death. In this review, we focused the different
kinds of chondrocyte death … Chondrocytes show necrotic features and, occasionally, also …

… This study shows that chondrocyte apoptosis is increased in human OA articular cartilage.
When analyzed by in situ detection of DNA strand breaks, OA cartilage showed apoptotic cells …

… death of articular chondrocytes has been implicated in the pathogenesis of human
osteoarthritis… Although nitric oxide and Fas ligand have been shown to be inducers of chondrocyte …

… that chondrocyte death does occur at some point in the pathogenesis of OA and that it can
be due to apoptosis, necrosis, or some combination of the two. Chondrocyte death can be …

… and chondrocyte death, and different types of cell death in … of these types of cell death
predominate in OA is debatable. … recent evidence on chondrocyte death in articular cartilage …

… (iii) disturbed catabolic activity (chondrocytes that begin to overproduced … chondrocyte cell
death and its interplay with cartilage degradation and OA progression. Chondrocyte cell death …

… apoptotic chondrocytes in osteoarthritic cartilage. It is not clear whether chondrocyte apoptosis
… Chondrocyte death and matrix loss may form a vicious cycle, with the progression of one …

… which kind of cell death is present in OA cartilage. Our results show that chondrocytes from
OA … features of apoptosis, suggesting that the cells from OA patients die by active cell death. …

… These results show that apoptotic chondrocyte death occurs more frequently in OA compared
to normal cartilage and in OA lesional compared to OA non-lesional cartilage. The different …

… that these chondrocytes are either metabolically dormant or dead. In this paper we report
experiments to test whether chondrocyte apoptosis occurs in STR/ort tibial chondrocytes and …