Investigating conversion of mechanical force into biochemical signaling in three-dimensional chondrocyte cultures

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 928-938

  Bougault, Carole ^a   Paumier, Anne ^a   Aubert Foucher, Elisabeth ^a   Mallein Gerin, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGAROSE; CELL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN COL2A1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOMECHANICS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; CHONDROCYTES; COLLAGEN TYPE II; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPHAROSE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSFECTION;

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 66749129094     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.63     Document Type: Article

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