Hypertrophic chondrocytes can become osteoblasts and osteocytes in endochondral bone formation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 33, 2014, Pages 12097-12102

  Yang, Liu ^a,b   Tsang, Kwok Yeung ^a   Tang, Hoi Ching ^a   Chan, Danny ^a   Cheah, Kathryn S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bone repair; Chondrocyte lineage; Osteoblast ontogeny

Indexed keywords

SCLEROSTIN; TAMOXIFEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE INJURY; BONE REMODELING; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL LINEAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPERTROPHIC CHONDROCYTE; LOXP SITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BONE REPAIR; CHONDROCYTE LINEAGE; OSTEOBLAST ONTOGENY;

ANIMALS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; CHONDROCYTES; MICE; OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOCYTES;

EID: 84906319227     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1302703111     Document Type: Article

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