Mouse models of osteoarthritis: Modelling risk factors and assessing outcomes

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 413-421

  Fang, Hang ^a   Beier, Frank ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT INJURY; ANTERIOR CRUCIATE LIGAMENT TRANSECTION; AVULSION INJURY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED OSTEOARTHRITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENETIC MODEL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KNEE LIGAMENT SURGERY; LIPID DIET; MECHANICAL LOADING MODEL; MEDIAL MENISCUS DESTABILIZATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS OSTEOARTHRITIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DIETARY FATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MICE; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PAIN; TIBIA; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 84903726760     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2014.46     Document Type: Review

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