Notochordal cell disappearance and modes of apoptotic cell death in a rat tail static compression-induced disc degeneration model

Arthritis Research and Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yurube, Takashi ^a   Hirata, Hiroaki ^a   Kakutani, Kenichiro ^a   Maeno, Koichiro ^a   Takada, Toru ^a   Zhang, Zhongying ^a   Takayama, Koji ^a   Matsushita, Takehiko ^a   Kuroda, Ryosuke ^a   Kurosaka, Masahiro ^a   Nishida, Kotaro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; DISEASE MODEL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NOTOCHORD; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TAIL; TUNEL ASSAY;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; MALE; NOTOCHORD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TAIL;

EID: 84893005057     PISSN: 14786354     EISSN: 14786362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/ar4460     Document Type: Article

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