Coming together is a beginning: The making of an intervertebral disc

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 83-100

  Chan, Wilson C W ^a   Au, Tiffany Y K ^a   Tam, Vivian ^a   Cheah, Kathryn S E ^a   Chan, Danny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Annulus fibrosus; Cartilage endplate; Degeneration; Intervertebral disc; Nucleus pulposus; Progenitor cells; Spine

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BETA CATENIN; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; LYMPHOID ENHANCER FACTOR 1; NOGGIN; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC2; WNT PROTEIN;

ANNULUS FIBROSUS; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CARTILAGE; CELL FATE; CELL HETEROGENEITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GASTRULATION; HUMAN; INNER CELL MASS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MESODERM; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; NULL ALLELE; OSSIFICATION; PRIMITIVE STREAK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATICA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRA BODY; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84896970486     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: 15429768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.21061     Document Type: Article

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