Terminal differentiation of chondrocytes is arrested at distinct stages identified by their expression repertoire of marker genes

Matrix Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 435-448

  Szuts, Viktória ^a   Möllers, Uta ^b   Bittner, Katharina ^b   Schürmann, Gregor ^b   Muratoglu, Selen ^a   Deák, Ferenc ^a   Kiss, Ibolya ^a   Bruckner, Peter ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agarose cultures; Checkpoints; Chondrocyte differentiation; Growth factors; Indian hedgehog; RNA extraction

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GROWTH FACTOR; INSULIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHORUS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHICK EMBRYO; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STERNUM; TAIL;

EID: 0031742193     PISSN: 0945053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0945-053X(98)90103-2     Document Type: Article

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