TY - JOUR AU - Sato, Masato AU - Shin-ya, Kazuo AU - Lee, Jeong Ik AU - Ishihara, Miya AU - Nagai, Toshihiro AU - Kaneshiro, Nagatoshi AU - Mitani, Genya AU - Tahara, Hidetoshi AU - Mochida, Joji PY - 2012 DA - 2012/04/02 TI - Human telomerase reverse transcriptase and glucose-regulated protein 78 increase the life span of articular chondrocytes and their repair potential JO - BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders SP - 51 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Like all mammalian cells, normal adult chondrocytes have a limited replicative life span, which decreases with age. To facilitate the therapeutic use of chondrocytes from older donors, a method is needed to prolong their life span. SN - 1471-2474 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-13-51 DO - 10.1186/1471-2474-13-51 ID - Sato2012 ER -