Delayed osteoblastic differentiation and bone development in Cx43 knockout mice

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1046-1055

  Chaible, Lucas Martins ^a   Sanches, Daniel Soares ^a   Cogliati, Bruno ^a   Mennecier, Gregory ^a   Dagli, Maria Lucia Zaidan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

bone development; Connexins; Cx43; Cx45; gap junctions; RUNX2

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CONNEXIN 43; CONNEXIN 45; CONNEXIN 46; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; OSTEOCALCIN; OSTEOPONTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; FETUS; FETUS WEIGHT; GENE; GENE DELETION; GJA1 GENE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONNEXIN 43; CORE BINDING FACTOR ALPHA 1 SUBUNIT; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; FEMALE; FETAL WEIGHT; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE DELETION; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOGENESIS; PREGNANCY; RIBS;

EID: 82355169078     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: 15331601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192623311422075     Document Type: Article

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