Environmental regulation of notochordal gene expression in nucleus pulposus cells

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 220, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 698-705

  Rastogi, Anshu ^a   Thakore, Pratiksha ^a   Leung, Aileen ^a   Benavides, Magda ^a   Machado, Monica ^a   Morschauser, Michael A ^a   Hsieh, Adam H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; CD24 ANTIGEN; OXYGEN; PROCOLLAGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACID;

AMBIENT AIR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE CELL; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL ISOLATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RAT; ANIMAL; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; METABOLISM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

RATTUS;

ALGINATES; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD24; CELL ADHESION; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN TYPE II; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MALE; NOTOCHORD; PHENOTYPE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67650345379     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21816     Document Type: Article

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