Platelet-activating factor receptor signals in rat osteoblasts during spaceflight

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1030, Issue , 2004, Pages 116-120

  Kumei, Yasuhiro ^a   Morita, Sadao ^a   Nakamura, Hiroshi ^a   Akiyama, Hideo ^b   Katano, Hisako ^a   Shimokawa, Hitoyata ^a   Ohya, KeI'Ichi ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TORAY RESEARCH CENTER INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; G protein; Osteoblast; Platelet activating factor receptor; Protein kinase C; Spaceflight

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; CASPASE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PROTEIN KINASE C; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; INFLAMMATION; MICROGRAVITY; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; RAT; SPACE FLIGHT; STRESS;

EID: 15044343949     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1329.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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