Growth differentiation factor 6 and transforming growth factor-beta differentially mediate mesenchymal stem cell differentiation, composition, and micromechanical properties of nucleus pulposus constructs

The BMP Ligand Gdf6 Prevents Differentiation of Coronal Suture Mesenchyme in Early Cranial Development

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Characterizing the elastic properties of tissues

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Localised micro-mechanical stiffening in the ageing aorta

(2011) Helen K. Graham et al.   MECHANISMS OF AGEING AND DEVELOPMENT

Notochordal conditioned media from tissue increases proteoglycan accumulation and promotes a healthy nucleus pulposus phenotype in human mesenchymal stem cells

(2011) Devina Purmessur et al.   ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY

Characterization of the human nucleus pulposus cell phenotype and evaluation of novel marker gene expression to define adult stem cell differentiation

(2010) Ben M. Minogue et al.   ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM

Differential response of human bone marrow stromal cells to either TGF-β1 or rhGDF-5

(2010) Benjamin Gantenbein-Ritter et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Co-culture induces mesenchymal stem cell differentiation and modulation of the degenerate human nucleus pulposus cell phenotype

(2010) Sandra Strassburg et al.   Regenerative Medicine

Transcriptional profiling of bovine intervertebral disc cells: implications for identification of normal and degenerate human intervertebral disc cell phenotypes

(2010) Ben M Minogue et al.   ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY

Tissue elasticity and the ageing elastic fibre

(2009) Michael J. Sherratt   AGE

Incomplete penetrance and phenotypic variability characterize Gdf6-attributable oculo-skeletal phenotypes

(2009) M. Asai-Coakwell et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Identification of phenotypic discriminating markers for intervertebral disc cells and articular chondrocytes

(2009) J. Clouet et al.   RHEUMATOLOGY

Expression of cartilage-derived morphogenetic protein in human intervertebral discs and its effect on matrix synthesis in degenerate human nucleus pulposus cells

(2009) Christine L Le Maitre et al.   ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY

Adenovirus-mediated expression of growth and differentiation factor-5 promotes chondrogenesis of adipose stem cells

(2008) Gang Feng et al.   GROWTH FACTORS

Mutations in GDF6 are associated with vertebral segmentation defects in Klippel-Feil syndrome

(2008) May Tassabehji et al.   HUMAN MUTATION

Chondrogenesis of Human Bone Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Fibrin–Polyurethane Composites

(2008) Zhen Li et al.   TISSUE ENGINEERING PART A

Human mesenchymal stem cell differentiation to NP-like cells in chitosan–glycerophosphate hydrogels

(2007) Stephen M. Richardson et al.   BIOMATERIALS