Cartilage to bone transitions in health and disease

Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Staines, K A ^a   Pollard, A S ^a   McGonnell, I M ^a   Farquharson, C ^b   Pitsillides, A A ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone; Cartilage; Chondrocyte; Endochondral ossification; Osteoarthritis

Indexed keywords

AGGRECAN; CADHERIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; COLLAGENASE 3; PARATHYROID HORMONE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BONE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MATURATION; CALCIFICATION; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE CELL; CARTILAGE MATRIX; DISEASE COURSE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GROWTH PLATE; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISEASE; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

BONE; CARTILAGE; CHONDROCYTE; ENDOCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS;

BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE DISEASES; CARTILAGE; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHONDROCYTES; EPIPHYSES; GROWTH PLATE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84884171695     PISSN: 00220795     EISSN: 14796805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/JOE-13-0276     Document Type: Review

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