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SUBMITTER: Hecht JT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8420863 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hecht Jacqueline T JT Veerisetty Alka C AC Wu Juliana J Coustry Francoise F Hossain Mohammad G MG Chiu Frankie F Gannon Francis H FH Posey Karen L KL
The American journal of pathology 20210608 9
Increasing numbers of people are living with osteoarthritis (OA) due to aging and obesity, creating an urgent need for effective treatment and preventions. Two top risk factors for OA, age and obesity, are associated with endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. The I-ERS mouse, an ER stress-driven model of primary OA, was developed to study the role of ER stress in primary OA susceptibility. The I-ERS mouse has the unique ability to induce ER stress in healthy adult articular chondrocytes and cartila ...[more]