Cartilage-Specific Over-Expression of CCN Family Member 2/Connective Tissue Growth Factor (CCN2/CTGF) Stimulates Insulin-Like Growth Factor Expression and Bone Growth

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Tomita, Nao ^a,b   Hattori, Takako ^a   Itoh, Shinsuke ^a,b   Aoyama, Eriko ^a   Yao, Mayumi ^a   Yamashiro, Takashi ^b   Takigawa, Masaharu ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRECAN; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEOGLYCAN; SOMATOMEDIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE GROWTH; BONE STRUCTURE; CARTILAGE CELL; CCN2 GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHONDROGENESIS; COL2A1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG BONE; MESENCHYME CELL; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BONE AND BONES; CARTILAGE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHONDROCYTES; CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROWTH FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; LIMB BUDS; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, SOMATOMEDIN;

MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84875515457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059226     Document Type: Article

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