Facilitative Glucose Transporters in Articular Chondrocytes [electronic resource] : Expression, Distribution and Functional Regulation of GLUT Isoforms by Hypoxia, Hypoxia Mimetics, Growth Factors and Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines / by Ali Mobasheri, Carolyn A. Bondy, Kelle Moley, Alexandrina Ferreira Mendes, Susana Carvalho Rosa, Stephen M. Richardson, Judith A. Hoyland, Richard Barrett-Jolley, Mehdi Shakibaei.
Series: Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology ; 200Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008Description: VII, 88 p. online resourceContent type:- text
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Articular Cartilage: Structure, Function, and Pathophysiology -- Does Arthritis Have a Nutritional Etiology? -- Metabolic Dysfunction in Arthritis -- Glucose: An Essential Metabolite and Structural Precursor for Articular Cartilage -- Mammalian Sugar Transporter Families: GLUT and SGLT -- Molecular Diversity of Facilitative Glucose Transporters in Articular Chondrocytes -- Regulation of Glucose Transport by Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs -- Glucose Transporters in the Intervertebral Disc -- Glucose Transporter Expression and Regulation in Embryonic and Mesenchymal Stem Cells -- Concluding Remarks.