Article
Inhibition of the chondrocyte phenotype by retinoic acid involves upregulation of metalloprotease genes independent of TGF-beta.
Journal of cellular physiology - 1 May 1994
Ballock R T, Heydemann A, Wakefield L M, Flanders K C, Roberts A B, Sporn M B
Abstract excerpt
Retinoic acid has been identified as a key morphogen governing pattern formation in the developing cartilaginous skeleton. Retinoids have also been implicated in the premature closure of the cartilage growth plate following vitamin A intoxication or administration of retinoids for dermatologic co...
Topics
- Animals
- Bone Matrix
- Cartilage, Articular
- Cells, Cultured
- Gene Expression
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Isomerism
- Metalloendopeptidases
- Phenotype
- Proteins
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun
- RNA, Messenger
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Transforming Growth Factor beta
- Tretinoin
