Agrin is highly expressed by chondrocytes and is required for normal growth

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 363-374

  Hausser, Heinz Juergen ^a   Ruegg, Markus A ^b   Brenner, Rolf E ^a   Ksiazek, Iwona ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agrin; Chondrocyte; Growth plate; Skeletal growth

Indexed keywords

AGGRECAN; AGRIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE MATRIX; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GROWTH PLATE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HYPERTROPHY; MOTONEURON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL DEATH; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSGENE; WILD TYPE;

AGGRECANS; AGRIN; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CARTILAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICKENS; CHONDROCYTES; COLLAGEN TYPE II; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH DISORDERS; GROWTH PLATE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MUS;

EID: 33847707014     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-006-0258-2     Document Type: Article

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