Receptor tyrosine kinase Axl modulates the osteogenic differentiation of pericytes

Circulation Research

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1123-1129

  Collett, Georgina ^a,b   Wood, Alan ^a   Alexander, M Yvonne ^b   Varnum, Brian C ^c   Boot Handford, Raymond P ^a   Ohanian, Vasken ^b   Ohanian, Jacqueline ^b   Fridell, Yih Woei ^d   Canfield, Ann E ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c AMGEN INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Axl receptor tyrosine kinase; Calcification; Gas6; Osteogenesis; Pericytes

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GROWTH ARREST SPECIFIC PROTEIN 6; LIGAND; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; POLYADENYLIC ACID; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE AXL; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MINERALIZATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OSTEOBLAST; PERICYTE; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; CATTLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DOWN-REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; OSTEOCYTES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PERICYTES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETINAL VESSELS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0038051797     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.0000074881.56564.46     Document Type: Article

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