Apoptotic cell death is not a widespread phenomenon in normal aging and osteoarthritic human articular knee cartilage: A study of proliferation, programmed cell death (apoptosis), and viability of chondrocytes in normal and osteoarthritic human knee cartilage

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1304-1312

  Aigner, T ^a   Hemmel, M ^a   Neureiter, D ^b   Gebhard, P M ^b   Zeiler, G ^a,b   Kirchner, T ^a   McKenna, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b Orthopedic Clinic Wichernhaus   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KNEE DISEASE; NICK END LABELING; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; APOPTOSIS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SURVIVAL; CHONDROCYTES; DNA; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KI-67 ANTIGEN; KNEE JOINT; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

EID: 0034966785     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200106)44:6<1304::AID-ART222>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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