Smad3 controls β-1,3-glucuronosyltransferase 1 expression in rat nucleus pulposus cells: Implications of dysregulated expression in disc disease

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3324-3333

  Wu, Qianghua ^a,b   Wang, Jianru ^a,c   Skubutyte, Renata ^a   Kepler, Christopher K ^a   Huang, Zonggui ^b   Anderson, D Greg ^a   Shapiro, Irving M ^a   Risbud, Makarand V ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b First Hospital of Nanning City   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 1,3 GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE 1; GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMAD3 PROTEIN; SMAD7 PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANULUS FIBROSUS CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; BRAIN CELL; CELLS; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUCURONOSYLTRANSFERASE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD3 PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84869026709     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: 15290131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.34570     Document Type: Article

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