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... (basic fibroblast growth factor) from the tissue. bFGF was shown to be extracellular, and by immunohistochemistry, was present in the pericellular matrix of articular chondrocytes attached to the heparan sulphate proteoglycan perlecan. We propose a novel mechanotransduction model, whereby pericellular...