TY - GEN
T1 - Heterotopic ossification following musculoskeletal trauma
T2 - Modeling stem and progenitor cells in their microenvironment
AU - Ji, Youngmi
AU - Christopherson, Gregory T.
AU - Kluk, Matthew W.
AU - Amrani, Orna
AU - Jackson, Wesley M.
AU - Nesti, Leon J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported acknowledged as part of the NIH Intramural Research Program. (Z01 AR41131 and 1ZIAAR041191), grants from the Department of Defense Military Amputee Research Program at WRAMC (PO5-A011), Comprehensive Neurosciences Program (CNP-2008-CR01) and Peer-Reviewed Orthopaedic Research Program (W81XWH-10-2-0084).
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Heterotopic ossification (HO), characterized by the formation of mature bone in the soft tissues, is a complication that can accompany musculoskeletal injury, and it is a frequent occurrence within the military population that has experienced orthopaedic combat trauma. The etiology of this disease is largely unknown. Our laboratory has developed strategies to investigate the cellular and molecular events leading to HO using clinical specimens that were obtained during irrigation and debridement of musculoskeletal injuries. Our approach enables to study (1) the cell types that are responsible for pathological transformation and ossification, (2) the cell- and tissue-level signaling that induces the pathologic transformation, and (3) the effect of extracellular matrix topography and force transduction on HO progression. In this review, we will report on our findings in each of these aspects of HO etiology and describe our efforts to recapitulate our findings in an animal model for traumatic HO.
AB - Heterotopic ossification (HO), characterized by the formation of mature bone in the soft tissues, is a complication that can accompany musculoskeletal injury, and it is a frequent occurrence within the military population that has experienced orthopaedic combat trauma. The etiology of this disease is largely unknown. Our laboratory has developed strategies to investigate the cellular and molecular events leading to HO using clinical specimens that were obtained during irrigation and debridement of musculoskeletal injuries. Our approach enables to study (1) the cell types that are responsible for pathological transformation and ossification, (2) the cell- and tissue-level signaling that induces the pathologic transformation, and (3) the effect of extracellular matrix topography and force transduction on HO progression. In this review, we will report on our findings in each of these aspects of HO etiology and describe our efforts to recapitulate our findings in an animal model for traumatic HO.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4614-0254-1_4
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4614-0254-1_4
M3 - Conference contribution
C2 - 21901617
AN - SCOPUS:80053926942
SN - 9781461402534
T3 - Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
SP - 39
EP - 50
BT - Human Cell Transformation
A2 - Rhim, Johng
A2 - Kremer, Richard
ER -