Chondrocytes Transdifferentiate into Osteoblasts in Endochondral Bone during Development, Postnatal Growth and Fracture Healing in Mice

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Zhou, Xin ^a   von der Mark, Klaus ^b   Henry, Stephen ^a   Norton, William ^a   Adams, Henry ^a   de Crombrugghe, Benoit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGC1 CREERT2 GENE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MATRIX; CARTILAGE CELL; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL LINEAGE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; COL10A1 CRE GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENCHONDRAL OSSIFICATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH PLATE; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; PERICHONDRIUM; PERIOSTEUM; POSTNATAL GROWTH; TRABECULAR BONE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; CARTILAGE; CELL CULTURE; CHONDROCYTE; CHONDROGENESIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; EPIPHYSIS PLATE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MUS;

ANIMALS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARTILAGE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CHONDROCYTES; CHONDROGENESIS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH PLATE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOGENESIS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84919667212     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004820     Document Type: Article

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