Figure 4.

Effects of exogenous galectin-3 (gal-3) on human osteoarthritis chondrocytes. Chondrocytes were treated with increasing concentrations of recombinant human gal-3. Both ADAMTS-5 and matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-3 expression were analyzed by real time RT-PCR. P versus control (Ctl); n = 5.