Caspase 3 as a therapeutic target for regulation of intervertebral disc degeneration in rabbits

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1648-1657

  Sudo, Hideki ^a   Minami, Akio ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; CASPASE 3; MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HISTOLOGY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; RABBITS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 79958028892     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.30251     Document Type: Article

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