For the microarray experiments, 10 g glass wool (Corning Glass Works, Corning, N.Y.) were used to form biofilms (30) in 250 mL in 1 L Erlenmeyer shake flasks which were inoculated with overnight cultu
Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs), residing in bone marrow as well as in the synovial lining of joints, can be triggered to differentiate toward chondrocytes. Thus, hMSCs harbor great therapeutic p
Tandem mass tag (TMT)-based quantitation is a strong modality for quantitative proteomics, as samples can be multiplexed, creating large-scale data sets with high precision and minimal missing values.