Research Article

Tricetin Protects Rat Chondrocytes against IL-1β-Induced Inflammation and Apoptosis

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Effects of tricetin on nitric oxide (NO) and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) production in IL-1β-induced chondrocytes, as determined by RT-PCR (a and b), the Griess reaction (c), and ELISA (d). Each column represents the from triplicate samples in three independent experiments. Tricetin (10 and 20 μM) significantly inhibited both IL-1β-induced inducible NO synthase (iNOS) gene expression and NO production, as well as cyclooygenase 2 (COX-2) and PGE2 expression. , , and .
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