Silencing BRE Expression in Human Umbilical Cord Perivascular (HUCPV) Progenitor Cells Accelerates Osteogenic and Chondrogenic Differentiation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Elve ^a   Tang, Mei Kuen ^a   Yao, Yao ^a   Yau, Winifred Wing Yiu ^a   Lo, Lok Man ^a   Yang, Xuesong ^b   Chui, Yiu Loon ^a   Chan, John ^b   Lee, Kenneth Ka Ho ^a,b,c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ADAPTOR PROTEIN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN BRE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BRE GENE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL RENEWAL; CHONDROGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; FGF5 GENE; FOXO1A GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMAN UMBILICAL CORD PERIVASCULAR PROGENITOR CELL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; OCT4 GENE; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMOKINES; CHONDROCYTES; CHONDROGENESIS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; GENE SILENCING; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELLS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOGENESIS; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELLS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UMBILICAL CORD;

EID: 84880718576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067896     Document Type: Article

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