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To evaluate the in vitro effects of diacerhein, a new drug for the treatment of osteoarthritis (OA), and its active metabolite, rhein, on interleukin 1beta (IL-1beta) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) synthesis and expression in human OA synovial membrane, and on the IL-1beta and TNF-alpha receptors on human OA chondrocytes.
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Unité de recherche en arthrose, Centre de recherche L.C. Simard, Campus Notre-Dame, Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal, Québec, Canada.
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