The role of sex hormones in the kinetics of chondrocytes in the growth plate. A study in the rabbit

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 87, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1278-1284

  Irie, T ^a   Aizawa, T ^a   Kokubun, S ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; CYCLINE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; CASTRATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DEATH; CELL KINETICS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROWTH PLATE; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHONDROCYTES; FEMUR; GROWTH PLATE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; OSTEONECTIN; RABBITS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 25844456762     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.87B9.15583     Document Type: Article

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