Osteoblast ontogeny and implications for bone pathology: An overview

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 355, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-33

  Titorencu, Irina ^a   Pruna, Vasile ^a   Jinga, Victor V ^a   Simionescu, Maya ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CELLULAR BIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY NICOLAE SIMIONESCU   (Romania)

Author keywords

Bone; Bone pathology; Mesenchymal stem cell; Osteoblasts; Osteoblasts ontogeny

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BONE DISEASE; BONE MASS; BONE REMODELING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL METABOLISM; CELL TRANSFORMATION; FRACTURE HEALING; GENE; HUMAN; MESENCHYME CELL; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOCYTE; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS; BONE AND BONES; HUMANS; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOCYTES; OSTEOGENESIS; OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA;

EID: 84893146687     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-013-1750-3     Document Type: Review

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