Histology of epiphyseal cartilage calcification and endochondral ossification

Frontiers in Bioscience - Elite

Volumn 4 E, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2085-2100

  Amizuka, Norio ^a   Hasegawa, Tomoka ^a   Oda, Kimimitsu ^b   Freitas De, Paulo Henrique Luiz ^a,c   Hoshi, Kazuto ^d   Li, Minqi ^a   Ozawa, Hidehiro ^e  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c Mario Gatti Hospital   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e MATSUMOTO DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cartilage; Chondrocytes; Osteoclasts; Osteogenesis; Physiologic calcification; Review

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BIGLYCAN; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE; COLLAGENASE 3; DECORIN; EPIPHYCAN; FIBROMODULIN; GELATINASE B; HYDROXYAPATITE; LUMICAN; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 14; OSTEOCALCIN; OSTEOPONTIN; PROTEOGLYCAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE MATRIX; CELL INVASION; CELL SWELLING; CHONDROPATHY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPIPHYSEAL CARTILAGE; EPIPHYSEAL CARTILAGE CALCIFICATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCLAST; OSTEOLYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MINERALIZATION; GROWTH PLATE; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; GROWTH PLATE; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OSTEOGENESIS;

EID: 84860847288     PISSN: 19450494     EISSN: 19450508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/e526     Document Type: Article

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