Implication for melatonin and its receptor in the spinal deformities of hereditary lordoscoliotic rabbits

Spine

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 554-558

  Sobajima, Satoshi ^a,b   Kin, Akihiro ^a   Baba, Ichiro ^a   Kanbara, Kiyoto ^a   Semoto, Yoshihiro ^a   Abe, Muneaki ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Apt F ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Hereditary Lordoscoliotic Rabbit; Melatonin; Quantitative RT PCR; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; MELATONIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPINE MALFORMATION;

EID: 0037444160     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BRS.0000049962.42646.53     Document Type: Article

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