Regulation of CCN2/connective tissue growth factor expression in the nucleus pulposus of the intervertebral disc: Role of smad and activator protein 1 signaling

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 62, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1983-1992

  Tran, Cassie M ^a   Markova, Dessislava ^a   Smith, Harvey E ^a   Susarla, Bala ^b   Ponnappan, Ravi Kumar ^a   Anderson, D Greg ^a   Symes, Aviva ^b   Shapiro, Irving M ^a   Risbud, Makarand V ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MIDDLE AGED; RATS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 77954222469     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.27445     Document Type: Article

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