Gravitational environment produced by a superconducting magnet affects osteoblast morphology and functions

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 63, Issue 7-10, 2008, Pages 929-946

  Qian, Airong ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Weng, Yuanyuan ^a   Tian, Zongcheng ^a   Di, Shengmeng ^a   Yang, Pengfei ^a   Yin, Dachuan ^a   Hu, Lifang ^a   Wang, Zhe ^a   Xu, Huiyun ^a   Shang, Peng ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Large gradient high magnetic field; Morphology; Proliferation; Simulated weightlessness

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MAGNETS; ADHESION; BIOACTIVITY; CELLS; COLLAGEN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING; ELECTROMAGNETS; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MAGNESIUM PRINTING PLATES; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; MORPHOLOGY; OSTEOBLASTS; PROTEINS; SUPERCONDUCTIVITY; THEOREM PROVING;

ADHESION ASSAYS; APPARENT GRAVITY; CELLULAR LEVELS; CONTROL CONDITION; ECM PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX (ECM) PROTEINS; FIBRONECTIN (FN); GRAVITATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; GROUND-BASED; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY (IC); LAMININ; MAGNETIC (CE); MG63 CELLS; OSTEOBLAST ADHESION; REAL-TIME PCR; ZERO GRAVITY;

SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS;

ADHESION; ANATOMY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELLS; COLLAGEN; GENES; GRAVITATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETS; PROTEINS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 48549104142     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2008.03.005     Document Type: Article

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