Primary culture and phenotyping of murine chondrocytes

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1253-1260

  Gosset, Marjolaine ^a   Berenbaum, Francis ^a,b   Thirion, Sylvie ^c   Jacques, Claire ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

^c University of Mediterranée   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; FIBROBLAST; GENE TARGETING; HYALINE CARTILAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB CARTILAGE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHONDROCYTES; CULTURE MEDIA; MICE; PHENOTYPE;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 50349096522     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.95     Document Type: Article

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