Transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 channel as an important modulator of chondrocyte mechanotransduction of osmotic loading

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2850-2851

  Hung, Clark T ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL 4;

BONE DENSITOMETRY; BONE REMODELING; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; JOINT INJURY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND MESSENGER;

ANIMALS; CHONDROCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRPV CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 77957660538     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.27617     Document Type: Editorial

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