Exogenous and autocrine growth factors stimulate human intervertebral disc cell proliferation via the ERK and Akt pathways

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 958-964

  Pratsinis, Harris ^a   Constantinou, Vasos ^a,b   Pavlakis, Kitty ^b   Sapkas, George ^b   Kletsas, Dimitris ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autocrine; Growth factors; Intervertebral disc; MAPK; PI 3K Akt

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; GROWTH FACTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN KINASE B; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CULTURE MEDIA, CONDITIONED; DNA; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PLATELET-DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT;

EID: 84859633721     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: 1554527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.22017     Document Type: Article

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