Scx+/Scx9+ progenitors contribute to the establishment of the junction between cartilage and tendon/ligament

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2280-2288

  Sugimoto, Yuki ^a   Takimoto, Aki ^a   Akiyama, Haruhiko ^b   Kist, Ralf ^c   Scherer, Gerd ^d   Nakamura, Takashi ^b   Hiraki, Yuji ^a   Shukunami, Chisa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chondrocytes; Ligamentocytes; Mouse; Scx; Sox9; Tenocytes

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; SCLERAXIS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SCX PROTEIN, MOUSE; SOX9 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL JUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE INACTIVATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LIGAMENT; MOUSE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STEM CELL; TENDON; ANIMAL; BONE; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGAMENTOCYTES; MESODERM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SCX; SOX9; TENOCYTES; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

CHONDROCYTES; LIGAMENTOCYTES; MOUSE; SCX; SOX9; TENOCYTES;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BONE AND BONES; CARTILAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIGAMENTS; MESODERM; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STEM CELLS; TENDONS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84877726737     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.096354     Document Type: Article

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