Prolonged and repeated upright posture promotes bone formation in rat lumbar vertebrae

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Bian, Qin ^a   Liang, Qian Qian ^a   Hou, Wei ^a   Wan, Chao ^b   Li, Chen Guang ^a   Zhao, Yong Jian ^a   Lu, Sheng ^a   Shi, Qi ^a   Wang, Yong Jun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

animal model; bipedal rats; bone formation; lumbar vertebrae

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 10; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BONE DENSITY; CELL INVASION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; COLLAGEN TYPE I; COLLAGEN TYPE X; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOGENESIS; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 79952986584     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181dbc101     Document Type: Article

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