Dysregulation of local stem/progenitor cells as a common cellular mechanism for heterotopic ossification

L Kan, Y Liu, TL McGuire, DMP Berger… - Stem …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Heterotopic ossification (HO), the abnormal formation of true marrow-containing bone within
extraskeletal soft tissues, is a serious bony disorder that may be either acquired or …

Stem cells and heterotopic ossification: lessons from animal models

JB Lees-Shepard, DJ Goldhamer - Bone, 2018 - Elsevier
Put most simply, heterotopic ossification (HO) is the abnormal formation of bone at
extraskeletal sites. HO can be classified into two main subtypes, genetic and acquired …

Identifying the cellular mechanisms leading to heterotopic ossification

OG Davies, LM Grover, N Eisenstein, MP Lewis… - Calcified tissue …, 2015 - Springer
Heterotopic ossification (HO) is a debilitating condition defined by the de novo development
of bone within non-osseous soft tissues, and can be either hereditary or acquired. The …

Heterotopic ossification: two rare forms and what they can teach us

FS Kaplan, GV Hahn, MA Zasloff - JAAOS-Journal of the American …, 1994 - journals.lww.com
Heterotopic ossification is characterized by the formation of normal bone at ectopic soft‐
tissue locations. Regardless of the etiology of heterotopic ossification, requisite pathogenetic …

Circulating osteogenic precursor cells in heterotopic bone formation

RK Suda, PC Billings, KP Egan, JH Kim… - Stem …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Cells with osteogenic potential can be found in a variety of tissues. Here we show that
circulating osteogenic precursor (COP) cells, a bone marrow-derived type I …

Hematopoietic stem-cell contribution to ectopic skeletogenesis

FS Kaplan, DL Glaser, EM Shore, RJ Pignolo, M Xu… - JBJS, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Background: Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is a rare genetic disorder of ectopic
skeletogenesis associated with dysregulation of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) …

BMP-dependent, injury-induced stem cell niche as a mechanism of heterotopic ossification

C Kan, N Ding, J Yang, Z Tan, TL McGuire, H Lu… - Stem Cell Research & …, 2019 - Springer
Background Heterotopic ossification (HO), either acquired (aHO) or hereditary, such as
fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), is a serious condition without effective …

Identification of progenitor cells that contribute to heterotopic skeletogenesis

VY Lounev, R Ramachandran, MN Wosczyna… - JBJS, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Background: Individuals who have fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva develop an ectopic
skeleton because of genetic dysregulation of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) signaling …

Animal models of typical heterotopic ossification

L Kan, JA Kessler - BioMed Research International, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Heterotopic ossification (HO) is the formation of marrow‐containing bone outside of the
normal skeleton. Acquired HO following traumatic events is a common and costly clinical …

Mechanism of traumatic heterotopic ossification: In search of injury‐induced osteogenic factors

L Li, RS Tuan - Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Heterotopic ossification (HO) is a pathological condition of abnormal bone formation in soft
tissue. Three factors have been proposed as required to induce HO:(a) osteogenic precursor …