Cx43 and Mechanotransduction in Bone

Current Osteoporosis Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 67-72

  Plotkin, Lilian I ^a   Speacht, Toni L ^b   Donahue, Henry J ^b  

^a RICHARD L ROUDEBUSH VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone; Connexin43; Gap junction channel; Hemichannel; Mechanotransduction; Osteocyte

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 43; PROSTAGLANDIN E2;

BONE; BONE CELL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; GAP JUNCTION; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOBLAST; OSTEOCLASTOGENESIS; OSTEOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; ANIMAL; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; IN VITRO STUDY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CONNEXIN 43; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMANS; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOCYTES; OSTEOGENESIS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84925496222     PISSN: 15441873     EISSN: 15442241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11914-015-0255-2     Document Type: Review

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