Annulus fibrosus cell characteristics are a potential source of intervertebral disc pathogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Jin, Li ^a   Liu, Qihai ^a   Scott, Phillip ^a   Zhang, Dawei ^a   Shen, Francis ^a   Balian, Gary ^a   Li, Xudong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRECAN; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 10; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; OSTEOCALCIN; OSTEOPONTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX2; COLLAGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANNULUS FIBROSUS; ANNULUS FIBROSUS CELL; ARTICLE; BMP2 GENE; BONE DEMINERALIZATION; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MATRIX; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HYPETROPHY; CELL ISOLATION; CHONDROGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LUMBAR DISK; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOPONTIN GENE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RABBIT MODEL; RUNX2 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL CULTURE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; RABBIT; RAT;

AGGRECANS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHONDROCYTES; CHONDROGENESIS; COLLAGEN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC DEGENERATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; OSTEOCALCIN; OSTEOGENESIS; RABBITS; RATS;

EID: 84900423574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096519     Document Type: Article

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