General Info

Chondrex provides a variety of high quality reagents and consulting services for arthritis and inflammatory research, under the trade name Arthrogen-CIA. The company specializes in the biochemistry and immunology of collagen and collagen-related materials, as well as arthritis research models, authentic collagen-induced arthritis models and monoclonal antibody-induced arthritis models. The company s reagents include various species and types of collagen, arthritogenic monoclonal antibodys, collagen detection kits, collagen antibody assay kits, nephrittogenic monoclonal antibodies, purified collagen, collagen staining kits, recombinant collagenases and collagenase assay kits and reagents and monoclonal antibodies including arthritogenic cocktails. Chondrex contract consulting services include screening and evaluating therapeutics in in vitro and in vivo systems, testing anti-collagen antibodies in humans and animals and development of new research strategies for therapeutic development. The company maintains its corporate headquarters in Redmond, Wash., and has distribution centers in China, Switzerland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand.