cDNA-arrays and real-time quantitative PCR techniques in the investigation of chronic achilles tendinosis

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 970-975

  Alfredson, Håkan ^a,b   Lorentzon, Mattias ^a,b   Bäckman, Stina ^a   Bäckman, Assar ^a   Lerner, Ulf H ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ORTHOPEDICS; PATIENT MONITORING; PROTEINS; TISSUE CULTURE;

PATHOGENESIS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; DECORIN; FIBRONECTIN; GELATINASE A; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PHOSPHORUS 32; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; STROMELYSIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACHILLES TENDON; ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; FREEZING; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOTOPE LABELING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EXTRACTION; TENDON LESION;

EID: 0141634183     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0736-0266(03)00107-4     Document Type: Article

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