Increased osmolarity and cell clustering preserve canine notochordal cell phenotype in culture

Tissue Engineering - Part C: Methods

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 652-662

  Spillekom, Sandra ^a   Smolders, Lucas A ^a   Grinwis, Guy C M ^b   Arkesteijn, Irene T M ^c   Ito, Keita ^c   Meij, Björn P ^a   Tryfonidou, Marianna A ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOPROTEINS; MORPHOLOGY; RECOVERY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

CULTURE CONDITIONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCANS; INFORMATION CONCERNING; INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS; NORMOXIC CONDITIONS; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS;

CYTOLOGY;

AGGRECAN; AGGRECANASE 2; ALGINIC ACID; BRACHYURY; CELL PROTEIN; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; COLLAGENASE 3; CYTOKERATIN 18; CYTOKERATIN 8; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA CONTENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORDAL CELL; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; OSMOLARITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; ANIMAL; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; DOG; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; METABOLISM; NOTOCHORD;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHONDROCYTES; DOGS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; NOTOCHORD; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION;

EID: 84904981909     PISSN: 19373384     EISSN: 19373392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2013.0479     Document Type: Article

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