The role of neurofibromin and melatonin in pathogenesis of pseudarthrosis after spinal fusion for neurofibromatous scoliosis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 395-398

  Abdel Wanis, Mohamed E ^a   Kawahara, Norio ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; HYDROCORTISONE; MELATONIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUROFIBROMIN; OSTEOCALCIN; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN E; RAS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; HEALING; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOLYSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINE FUSION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; FIBROSIS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BONE AND BONES; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; MELATONIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS 1; NEUROFIBROMIN 1; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL FUSION;

EID: 0036020688     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/mehy.2001.1467     Document Type: Article

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