Objective:To investigate the effects of PAP on synthetic metabolic functionof normal rabbit articular chondrocytes in vitro; To investigatethe effects of PAP on normal rabbit articular chondrocytesapoptosis; To investigate the effects of PAP on rabbit articularchondrocytes apoptosis induced by NO.
Methods:1 The system of rabbit articular chondrocytes in vitro wasestablished. Rabbit articular chondrocytes were obtained fromcartilage chips which were scraped from the knees and hips of 6-month-old ra...