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Mechanical stretch increases Smad3-dependent CCN2 expression in inner meniscus cells

✍ Scribed by Takayuki Furumatsu; Tomoko Kanazawa; Yoshiaki Miyake; Satoshi Kubota; Masaharu Takigawa; Toshifumi Ozaki


Book ID
112134387
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
464 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
0736-0266

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