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Received: 25 August 2024

Accepted: 25 March 2025

First Online: 7 April 2025

Declarations

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: The authors declare no competing interests.

: No human or animal participants were involved in this study; ovine chondrocytes had been obtained and biobanked from sheep euthanised for reasons unrelated to this study. Based on the “Good Scientific Practice. Ethics in Science und Research” regulation implemented at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, the Institutional Ethics Committee (“Ethics and Animal Welfare Committee”) of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna does not require approval of in vitro cell culture studies, if the cells were isolated from tissue, which was obtained either solely for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes or in the course of institutionally and nationally approved experiments. The sheep from which the cells were obtained had been euthanised in the course of a study for which approval of the national (“Commission for Animal Research” of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy) and institutional. (“Ethics and Animal Welfare Committee” of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna”) animal welfare committees (ethical approval number: 68.205/0100-V/3b/2018) had been granted and which had been reported according to ARRIVE guidelines. All methods were carried out in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.