TNF-α and TGF-β1 regulate Syndecan-4 expression in nucleus pulposus cells: role of the mitogen-activated protein kinase and NF-κB pathways.

abstract：:Sonic hedgehog (Shh) expression is highly localized to the epithelium at the future sites of tooth development. This restricted expression suggests that inhibition of Shh in areas where teeth do not form may be an important mechanism in tooth germ localization. Recently, Hip, a putative vertebrate antagonist of Shh, h...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Cobourne MT,Sharpe PT

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate enamel thickness in extant and extinct hominoids. The material used in this study spans the evolutionary history of this group, from 20 million years ago to the present. The objectives of this investigation are to test three hypotheses: (1) the Loading Hypothesis: loadi...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Gantt DG,Rafter JA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human aortic smooth muscle cells (AoSMCs) change their extracellular matrix composition during aging, with direct effects on cellular events and cell migration. For example, active matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) is synthesized only by young AoSMCs, whereas aged cells produce only the inactive zymogen form. The pro...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Vigetti D,Moretto P,Viola M,Genasetti A,Rizzi M,Karousou E,Clerici M,Bartolini B,Pallotti F,De Luca G,Passi A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alveolar mucosa and attached gingiva are two continuous but functionally distinct connective tissues covering alveolar bone of the jaw. In this study, the major matrix component of these tissues, collagen, was biochemically characterized and compared. The tissues were obtained from mature pigs and analyzed for collage...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Katafuchi M,Matsuura T,Atsawasuwan P,Sato H,Yamauchi M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin treated and aldehyde crosslinked rat aorta segments were implanted in infrarenal aorta of homologous rats. One year following aortic replacement, the subendothelial scar and the prosthetic remnants were excised. The scar and the host intima-media were incubated with 3H-valine for 4 h and extracted with 5 M gua...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Moczar M,Bessou JP,Loisance D

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An agarose gel matrix was utilized to grow chondrocytes from human donors of various ages in cell culture. The chondrocytes produced the pericellular matrix characteristic for such cells and synthesized collagen type II as well as glyco-saminoglycans. The latter exhibit the typical distribution pattern of the respecti...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Delbrück A,Dresow B,Gurr E,Reale E,Schröder H

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the glycoproteins and transglutaminase substrates involved in healing, wounds were made in the skin of anesthetized rats with a biopsy punch. Explants made 1-5 days later were incubated with [3H]-labelled putrescine, fucose or proline. As compared with unwounded skin there was an increased incorporation of la...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Bowness JM,Henteleff H,Dolynchuk KN

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein components of biomineralized structures (matrix proteins) are believed to modulate crystal nucleation and growth, and thereby influence the shape and strength of the final structure. The chicken eggshell contains a complex array of distinct matrix proteins. One of these was found to have similar molecular ...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Hincke MT

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The structural organization of collagen from mineralized tissues, such as dentin and bone, has been a topic of debate in the recent literature. Recent reports have presented novel interpretations of the complexity of collagen type I at different hierarchical levels and in different tissues. Here, we investigate th...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Bertassoni LE,Swain MV

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone and dentin contain many phosphoproteins in their extracellular matrix. It has been postulated that the anionic character of these proteins, and the presence of phosphate groups in particular, is important for various functions related to biomineralization. Phosphophoryns (PP), are the most highly phosphorylated d...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Sfeir C,Veis A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Orthodontic tooth movement occurs during the bone remodeling induced by therapeutic mechanical strain. It is important to investigate the relation between the strength of mechanical stress and bone formation activity. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of high-magnitude mechanical strain on bone ...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Fushiki R,Mayahara K,Ogawa M,Takahashi Y,Karasawa Y,Tsurumachi N,Tamura T,Shimizu N

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM OF THE STUDY:To further elucidate the pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis (SSc) an experimental avian model was used. The University of California at Davis line 200 (UCD-200) chickens spontaneously develop a SSc-like disease that has most features of human SSc with vascular effects, inflammation, autoimmunity, and f...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Kerje S,Hellman U,Do L,Larsson G,Kämpe O,Engström-Laurent A,Lindqvist U

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of I- and C1- on the enzymatic degradation of elastin pancreatic elastase has been studied. At low halide concentrations both ions show a marked stimulation of elastolysis, I- being significantly more effective than Cl-. Kinetic plots of enzyme activity indicate that anions enhance the susceptibility of the...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Winkler RH

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: Aseptic loosening is a major problem in total joint replacement. Implant wear debris provokes a foreign body host response and activates cells to produce a variety of mediators and ROS, leading to periprosthetic osteolysis. Elevated ROS levels can harm proteasome function. Proteasome inhibitors have been re...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Niarakis A,Giannopoulou E,Syggelos SA,Panagiotopoulos E

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in-vitro fluoride treatment technique has been introduced to investigate the composite behavior of bone tissue. Bone tissue with different mechanical properties can be obtained by varying the concentration, pH and immersion time in fluoride ion solutions. The chemical and physical changes in intact pieces of bone ...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Kotha SP,DePaula CA,Koike K,Pan Y,Ohno M,Abjornson C,Rangarajan S,Guzelsu N

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions are required for tissue growth and gene expression patterns during odontogenesis. We showed previously that Sonic hedgehog (SHH) is detectable in both dental epithelium and mesenchyme, while Shh transcripts are present in dental epithelium only, suggesting that SHH functions as an a...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Wu C,Shimo T,Liu M,Pacifici M,Koyama E

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperhomocysteinemia causes connective tissue pathology. Several theories on the mechanism of homocysteine toxicity in connective tissue are reviewed briefly. A possible new mechanism was revealed recently in the discovery of a reaction in which homocysteine thiolactone is converted to mercaptopropionaldehyde. The rea...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Toohey JI

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the changes in some of the biochemical and biophysical properties of human femoral head cartilage on the one hand during ageing and on the other hand in osteoarthritis. Topographical variations were also investigated. The parameters studied were those relevant to cartilage function, viz., proteogl...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Grushko G,Schneiderman R,Maroudas A

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This investigation is devoted to the study of the viscoelastic behavior of human abdominal fascia from the umbilical region. Seventeen samples 10 mm wide and up to 70 mm long were cut along the primary fiber direction (group FL) or perpendicular to it (group FT) and subjected to relaxation tests. The viscoelastic resp...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Kirilova M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions were established to stimulate human gingival fibroblast explant cultures to synthesize milligram quantities of the metalloproteinase proenzymes, prostromelysin and procollagenase. To stimulate enzyme production, cells were treated with 1 nM recombinant human IL-1 beta for approximately 7 days under serum fr...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Lark MW,Walakovits LA,Shah TK,Vanmiddlesworth J,Cameron PM,Lin TY

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ameloblastic tissue samples from unerupted bone molars were used to prepare subcellular enamel protein kinase preparations, nuclear + plasma membrane, cytosolic and microsomal, and used in in vitro phosphorylation of purified 20 kDa bovine amelogenin in the presence of 32P-ATP. Both cytosolic and microsomal preparatio...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Salih E,Huang JC,Strawich E,Gouverneur M,Glimcher MJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown in a transgenic mouse line, in which 5.2 kb of the elastin promoter was linked to the reporter enzyme chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT), that the highest levels of expression were found in embryonic lungs and aorta, while lower levels were detected in other elastin-containing tissues. Fu...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Lakkakorpi J,Li K,Decker S,Korkeela E,Piddington R,Abrams W,Bashir M,Uitto J,Rosenbloom J

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During cloning of the rat incisor phosphophoryn gene, several clones were identified with a PP antibody. One of the clones (2PP) was shown to encode a PP denoted as dentin matrix protein 2, DMP2. We have now sequenced another clone, which appears to be bifunctional, or at minimum, has two distinct domains. The 5' regi...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： George A,Srinivasan RThotakura SR,Liu K,Veis A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose/Aim: Elevated serum phosphate is one of the major factors contributing to vascular calcification. Studies suggested that extracellular vesicles released from vascular smooth muscle cells significantly contribute to the initiation and progression of this pathology. Recently, we have demonstrated that elevated p...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Chaudhary SC,Khalid S,Smethurst V,Monier D,Mobley J,Huet A,Conway JF,Napierala D

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and differentiation factor-5 (GDF-5) is known to induce tendon tissue and stimulate tendon healing. The hypothesis was that adenoviral GDF-5 transfer leads to transitory transgene expression and improves Achilles tendon healing. In vitro experiments were first performed with rat tenocytes. Transgene expression ...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Rickert M,Wang H,Wieloch P,Lorenz H,Steck E,Sabo D,Richter W

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of elastin and microfibrils in elastogenesis in vitro was investigated with electron microscopy and immunohistochemistry. Fetal human pulmonary fibroblasts were cultured with or without beta-aminopropionitrile (BAPN). One week after seeding, the extracellular microfibrils were loosely arranged without ...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Fukuda Y,Nakazawa N,Yamanaka N

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two overlapping clones encompassing 8.5 kb of the human elastin gene were isolated from two genomic libraries constructed by partial digestion with either HaeIII/AluI or Sau3A and contained in lambda Charon 4A or EMBL3, respectively. The 6 kb of DNA comprising the most 3' portion of the gene were sequenced demonstrati...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Indik Z,Yoon K,Morrow SD,Cicila G,Rosenbloom J,Rosenbloom J,Ornstein-Goldstein N

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine articular chondrocytes cultured in agarose gel comprise a heterogeneous population when judged by morphological and histochemical criteria. The purpose of the present experiments was to compare, under the same conditions of culture, sub-populations of chondrocytes derived from different depths of articular cart...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Aydelotte MB,Kuettner KE

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The meniscal cartilages in the knee function to improve congruity of the medial and lateral femoro-tibial joints and play critical roles in load distribution and joint stability. Meniscal tears of various configurations are one of the most common conditions of the knee and are associated with an increased risk of deve...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： Melrose J,Fuller ES,Little CB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteoarthritis (OA) is typically managed in late stages by replacement of the articular cartilage surface with a prosthesis as an effective, though undesirable outcome. As an alternative, hydrogel implants or growth factor treatments are currently of great interest in the tissue engineering community, and scaffold mat...

journal_title：Connective tissue research

authors： McCreery KP,Calve S,Neu CP

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00