Evaluation of apoptosis and the glucocorticoid receptor in the cartilage growth plate and metaphyseal bone cells of rats after high-dose treatment with corticosterone

Bone

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-42

  Silvestrini, G ^a   Ballanti, P ^a   Patacchioli, F R ^a   Mocetti, P ^a   Di Grezia, R ^b   Martin Wedard, B ^a   Angelucci, L ^a   Bonucci, E ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Inst Ricovero Cura Carattere S   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bone cells; Chondrocytes; Corticosterone; Glucocorticoid receptor; Histomorphometry

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; GROWTH PLATE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; METAPHYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOCYTE; OSTEOLYSIS; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BONE AND BONES; CORTICOSTERONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EVALUATION STUDIES; GROWTH PLATE; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 0033990306     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S8756-3282(99)00245-8     Document Type: Article

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