Mesenchymal stem cell therapy for injured growth plate

Frontiers in Bioscience - Scholar

Volumn 5 S, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 774-785

  Shukrimi, Awang B ^a   Afizah, Mohd H ^a   Schmitt, Jacqueline F ^a   Hui, James H P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Articular cartilage; Bone bridge; Cartilage; Cartilage repair; Chondrocytes; Chondrogenesis; Growth factors; Growth plate; Mesenchymal stem cells; Review; Zonal arrangement

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; GROWTH PLATE ORIENTATION FACTOR; THYROXINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHONDROGENESIS; COMPRESSION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH PLATE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYPOXIA; IMMUNOGENICITY; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; OXYGEN TENSION; TISSUE REGENERATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; INJURY; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGENERATION; REVIEW;

LEPORIDAE; OVIS; SUS;

ANIMALS; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; GROWTH PLATE; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; REGENERATION;

EID: 84883720470     PISSN: 19450516     EISSN: 19450524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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