The zinc link

Virginia Byers Kraus ()
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Virginia Byers Kraus: Virginia Byers Kraus is at the Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27701-2047, USA.

Nature, 2014, vol. 507, issue 7493, 441-442

Abstract: Increased influx of zinc into chondrocytes — the cells that make up cartilage — has been found to activate matrix-degrading enzymes that cause the destruction of cartilage in osteoarthritis.

Date: 2014
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