A new histomorphometric method to assess growth plate chondrodysplasia and its application to the toothless (tl, Csf1null) osteopetrotic rat

Connective Tissue Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-10

  Devraj, Kavi ^a   Bonassar, Lawrence J ^b   MacKay, Carole A ^b   Mason Savas, April ^b   Gartland, Alison ^b   Odgren, Paul R ^b  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBERS SCHOENBERG DISEASE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE CELL; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHONDRODYSPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GROWTH PLATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; OSTEOCLAST; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; THICKNESS;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; CHONDROCYTES; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GROWTH PLATE; HYPERTROPHY; MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; OSTEOCHONDRODYSPLASIAS; OSTEOPETROSIS; RATS; RATS, MUTANT STRAINS; TIBIA; TOOTH ABNORMALITIES;

EID: 1842844329     PISSN: 03008207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03008200490278016     Document Type: Article

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