Epiphyseal fusion in the human growth plate does not involve classical apoptosis

Pediatric Research

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 654-659

  Emons, Joyce ^a   Chagin, Andrei S ^b   Hultenby, Kjell ^c   Zhivotovsky, Boris ^c   Wit, Jan M ^a   Karperien, Marcel ^a,d   Sävendahl, Lars ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Department of Pediatric Endocrinology ^*

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPHAGY; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DEATH; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIPHYSIS; FEMALE; GROWTH PLATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MALE; NICK END LABELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; ADOLESCENT; APOPTOSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GROWTH PLATE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 73449092829     PISSN: 00313998     EISSN: 15300447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1203/PDR.0b013e3181beaa8c     Document Type: Article

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