Prothrombin gene expression in articular cartilage with a putative role in cartilage degeneration secondary to joint immobility

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1547-1555

  Trudel, Guy ^a   Uhthoff, Hans K ^b   Laneuville, Odette ^c,d  

^a Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation   (Italy)

^b Division of Orthopaedic Surgery   (Canada)

^c Department of Biochemistry Microbiology and Immunology   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Chondrocytes; Immunohistochemistry; Joint contractures; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; Thrombin

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTHROMBIN; THROMBIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY; FIBRIN DEPOSITION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN GENE; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CHONDROCYTES; CONTRACTURE; CYTOSOL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; PROTHROMBIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 23444435113     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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