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SUBMITTER: Peterson JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4353731 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Peterson Jonathan R JR De La Rosa Sara S Eboda Oluwatobi O Cilwa Katherine E KE Agarwal Shailesh S Buchman Steven R SR Cederna Paul S PS Xi Chuanwu C Morris Michael D MD Herndon David N DN Xiao Wenzhong W Tompkins Ronald G RG Krebsbach Paul H PH Wang Stewart C SC Levi Benjamin B
Science translational medicine 20140901 255
Heterotopic ossification (HO) is the pathologic development of ectopic bone in soft tissues because of a local or systemic inflammatory insult, such as burn injury or trauma. In HO, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are inappropriately activated to undergo osteogenic differentiation. Through the correlation of in vitro assays and in vivo studies (dorsal scald burn with Achilles tenotomy), we have shown that burn injury enhances the osteogenic potential of MSCs and causes ectopic endochondral heterot ...[more]