Adipose-derived stem cells from the brown bear (Ursus arctos) spontaneously undergo chondrogenic and osteogenic differentiation in vitro

Stem Cell Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 89-95

  Fink, Trine ^a   Rasmussen, Jeppe G ^a,b   Emmersen, Jeppe ^a   Pilgaard, Linda ^a   Fahlman, Åsa ^c,d   Brunberg, Sven ^e   Josefsson, Johan ^f   Arnemo, Jon M ^g,h   Zachar, Vladimir ^a   Swenson, Jon E ⁱ   Fröbert, Ole ^f  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project   (Sweden)

^f ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^h INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

ⁱ NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOSE DERIVED STEM CELL; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAR; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHONDROGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDINAVIA;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHONDROGENESIS; FEMALE; MALE; OSTEOGENESIS; STEM CELLS; URSIDAE;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 79956351553     PISSN: 18735061     EISSN: 18767753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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