Dihydrotestosterone stimulates proliferation and differentiation of fetal calvarial osteoblasts and dural cells and induces cranial suture fusion

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1137-1147

  Lin, Ines C ^b   Slemp, Alison E ^b   Hwang, Catherine ^b   Sena Esteves, Miguel ^b   Nah, Hyun Duck ^b   Kirschner, Richard E ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; MESSENGER RNA; OSTEOCALCIN; OSTEOPONTIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE CELL; CALVARIA; CELL ASSAY; CELL CULTURE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL SUTURE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DURA MATER; FETUS; FETUS CELL; HISTOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CRANIAL SUTURES; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DURA MATER; FETUS; MALE; MICE; OSTEOBLASTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKULL;

EID: 34848848209     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000279527.99734.bf     Document Type: Article

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