Quantitative imaging of cartilage and bone for functional assessment of gene therapy approaches in experimental arthritis

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This work was supported by the EU project 'Engineered mesenchymal stem cells combined with gene therapy for osteoarticular diseases' (QLRT-2001-02039). The authors would like to thank A. G. Bitterman and M. Hochli, at the Centre for Microscopy and Image Analysis, University of Zurich, for help and advice concerning the CLSM imaging. We thank the vector core of the University Hospital of Nantes, supported by the Association Francaise contre les Myopathies (AFM), for providing the adenoviral vectors.