Indirect co-culture with tendons or tenocytes can program amniotic epithelial cells towards stepwise tenogenic differentiation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Barboni, Barbara ^a,c   Curini, Valentina ^a,c   Russo, Valentina ^a,c   Mauro, Annunziata ^a,c   Giacinto, Oriana ^a   Marchisio, Marco ^b,c   Alfonsi, Melissa ^b,c   Mattioli, Mauro ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c Stem TeCh Group   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; CONNEXIN 32; CONNEXIN 43; OSTEOCALCIN;

AMNION CELL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMMUNOMODULATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; AMNION; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; TENDON; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

AMNION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE; TENDONS; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84856782069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030974     Document Type: Article

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