Isolation and culture of primary osteocytes from the long bones of skeletally mature and aged mice

BioTechniques

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 361-373

  Stern, Amber Rath ^a   Stern, Matthew M ^a   van Dyke, Mark E ^b   Jähn, Katharina ^a   Prideaux, Matthew ^a   Bonewald, Lynda F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Collagenase; Culture; Isolation; Mice; Osteocyte

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGENASE; EDETIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MATURATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG BONE; MOLECULAR SENSOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; RAT; SUSPENSION;

AGE FACTORS; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE AND BONES; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL SEPARATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN TYPE I; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC MARKERS; GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; OSTEOCYTES; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS;

EID: 84862172249     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: 19409818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/0000113876     Document Type: Article

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