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Ten medial tibial plateaus were collected (median age 64 years, six right knees and four left knees, six females and four males). Dabrafenib mouse Cartilage from damaged and undamaged regions was removed and snap frozen for microarray analysis. A uniform and anatomically aligned section was taken through all regions, wax embedded and the blocks stored for confirmation of cartilage phenotype using Safranin-O. A further six patients were recruited and cartilage collected for qPCR confirmation studies. Damaged and undamaged cartilage was identified and isolated using our previously defined spatial model of AMG [Fig.?1]. Cartilage was ground in liquid nitrogen and RNA extracted using the RNeasy lipid kit (Qiagen, Crawley, UK) according to the manufacturers instructions. All samples underwent on-column DNAse treatment. RNA yield and quality was determined using an Agilent Bioanalyzer and Nanodrop Spectrophotometer. The median RNA integrity number (RIN) value was 7.3 (range 6.5�C8.8), one patient was excluded due to a low RIN value. Paired (damaged and undamaged) samples were used for microarray at equal concentrations. Prior to labelling, the samples were concentrated to 8.3?��l in a rotary evaporator. Samples were prepared as per Agilent's Two-Colour Microarray-Based Gene Expression Analysis (Quick Amp Labelling v5.7) protocol. RNA was fragmented at 60��C for 30?min and the reaction was stopped by the addition of 2�� Agilent Hi-RPM hybridisation buffer. Samples were loaded on to arrays (Aglient G2159F, Design ID14850, 44,000 probes) and hybridised at 65��C for 17?h at 10?RPM. Slides were washed and scanned as per Agilent's protocol. SCH772984 chemical structure First strand cDNA synthesis was performed on 50?ng RNA using Superscript III (Invitogen, Paisley, UK) according to the manufacturers protocol. qPCR for TNFRSF11B (OPG), SOX11, IGF1 and FGF18 was performed using predesigned primers (Quantitect, Qiagen, Crawley, UK) and SYBR green (Qiagen, Crawley, UK) in a Rotor-Gene RG-3,000 qPCR cycler (Qiagen, Crawley, UK). MMP1, MMP3 and MMP13 expression was measured using Taqman primer-probes and Taqman Master Mix (Applied Biosystems, Paisley, UK) on an ABI7900HT. Microarray signal normalisation was carried out using Agilent Feature Extraction 9.5.3, which applied Ritonavir a global Lowess normalisation to remove systematic errors resulting from the fluorescence profiles of the two dyes. The normalised fluorescence data was analysed using GeneSpring GX10 (Agilent Technologies) to identify differentially expressed genes. Transcripts identified as differentially expressed had to show >2 fold differences in damaged compared to undamaged cartilage in all of the nine individuals tested. The fold change value represents average signal intensity of damaged compared to undamaged cartilage across all nine patients. As all samples were paired, the Wilcoxon signed rank test (a non-parametric test) was utilized to identify genes showing significant (P?