Expression of Brachyury in mesenchymal progenitor cells leads to cartilage-like tissue that is resistant to the destructive effect of rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts

Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-128

  Dinser, Robert ^a   Pelled, Gadi ^b   Müller Ladner, Ulf ^a   Gazit, Dan ^b   Neumann, Elena ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brachyury; Cartilage like nodules; Mesenchymal progenitors; Rheumatoid fibroblasts

Indexed keywords

CARTILAGE; DISEASES; FIBROBLASTS; JOINTS (ANATOMY);

BRACHYURY; CARTILAGE-LIKE NODULE; CARTILAGE-LIKE TISSUES; CELL LINES; CHONDROGENIC POTENTIAL; DESTRUCTIVE EFFECTS; MESENCHYMAL PROGENITOR CELLS; MESENCHYMAL PROGENITORS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID FIBROBLAST;

CELL CULTURE;

COLLAGEN TYPE 2; PROTEOGLYCAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BRACHYURY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BRACHYURY PROTEIN; FETOPROTEIN; T BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS SYNOVIAL FIBROBLAST; ANIMAL; CARTILAGE; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PATHOLOGY; SYNOVIUM;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CARTILAGE; FEMALE; FETAL PROTEINS; FIBROBLASTS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICE; MICE, SCID; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS;

EID: 66949178803     PISSN: 19326254     EISSN: 19327005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/term.148     Document Type: Article

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