Article
[Morphofunctional aspects of genetic analysis of osteogenesis imperfecta in cultured skin fibroblasts].
Biulleten' eksperimental'noi biologii i meditsiny - 1 Jul 1992
Meerson E M, Barer F S, Berezhnyĭ A P, Prokhorova E V, Maliavko T P, Chernysheva E V, Neustroeva E P
Abstract excerpt
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a disease with biochemical evidence of abnormality in collagen biosynthesis. We report here that expression of the OI phenotype extends to the level of dermal fibroblast morphology in vitro. Growth characteristics and morphology of control (n = 3) and 01 cell strai...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Cells, Cultured
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Collagen
- Cytoplasm
- Fibroblasts
- Fibronectins
- Humans
- Infant
- Middle Aged
- Osteogenesis Imperfecta
- Phenotype
- Skin
