Experimental study of low-frequency electroacupuncture-induced differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells into chondrocytes

International Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 79-86

  Wu, Guangwen ^a   Peng, Jun ^a   Wu, Mingxia ^b   Li, Yurong ^b   Huang, Yunmei ^a   Lin, Ruhui ^a   Cai, Qiaoyan ^a   Liu, Xianxiang ^a  

^a FUJIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b FUZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bone mesenchymal stem cells; Chondrocytes; Differentiation; Low frequency electroacupuncture; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

CD45 ANTIGEN; COLLAGEN; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; MATRIX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; THY 1 ANTIGEN; TOLONIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE CELL; BONE MARROW; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DEDIFFERENTIATION; CYTOPLASM; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHONDROCYTES; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 78651104181     PISSN: 11073756     EISSN: 1791244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2010.555     Document Type: Article

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