Epigenetic selection as a possible component of transdifferentiation. Further study of the commitment of hypertrophic chondrocytes to become osteocytes.

doi:10.1016/0047-6374(96)01703-4

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Epigenetic selection as a possible component of transdifferentiation. Further study of the commitment of hypertrophic chondrocytes to become osteocytes.

Mechanisms of ageing and development - 25 Jun 1996

Erenpreisa J, Roach H I

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Transdifferentiation of hypertrophic chondrocytes into osteogenic cells was induced in 14 day chick embryo femurs by cutting through the region of hypertrophic cartilage. The process was studied in organ culture, using electron microscopy, staining for alkaline phosphatase, immunocytochemistry of...

Topics

Animals
Cartilage
Cell Differentiation
Chick Embryo
Hypertrophy
Osteoblasts
Osteocytes
Phenotype
Selection, Genetic

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