Occurrence and treatment of bone atrophic non-unions investigated by an integrative approach

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Geris, Liesbet ^a,b   Reed, Anita A C ^c,d   Vander Sloten, Jos ^a   Simpson, A Hamish R W ^e   van Oosterwyck, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; FRACTURE; PATIENT TREATMENT;

BLOOD VESSEL GROWTH; CELL TRANSPLANTS; CLINICAL SITUATIONS; FRACTURE HEALING; GROWTH FACTOR; IN-SILICO; IN-SILICO MODELS; IN-VIVO; PRECURSOR CELLS; VASCULATURE;

CELL PROLIFERATION;

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 4; GROWTH FACTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; CYCLINE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE ATROPHY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OSTEOTOMY; RAT; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULARIZATION; ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; BONE MARROW CELL; BONE REGENERATION; CELL MOTION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHONDROGENESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DISEASE MODEL; FRACTURE; METABOLISM; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR KYOTO RAT; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE MARROW CELLS; BONE REGENERATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHONDROGENESIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; RATS; RATS, INBRED WKY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 78049425273     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000915     Document Type: Article

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