Effects of hypergravity on morphology and osteopontin expression in the rat otolith organs

Journal of Vestibular Research: Equilibrium and Orientation

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 283-289

  Uno, Yoshihiro ^a   Horii, Arata ^a   Umemoto, Masanori ^b   Hasegawa, Taro ^a   Doi, Katsumi ^a   Uno, Atsuhiko ^a   Takemura, Teiji ^a   Kubo, Takeshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Gravity; Osteopontin; Otolith organs; PCR; Space

Indexed keywords

OSTEOPONTIN;

ACCELERATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OTOLITH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPACE FLIGHT;

ANIMALS; CENTRIFUGATION; DNA PRIMERS; GLYCERALDEHYDE-3-PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASES; GRAVITATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OSTEOPONTIN; OTOLITHIC MEMBRANE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIALOGLYCOPROTEINS;

EID: 0034436632     PISSN: 09574271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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