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ArticleClinical orthopaedics and related research2012

Immune and inflammatory pathways are involved in inherent bone marrow ossification.

Umut Atakan Gurkan, Ryan Golden, Vipuil Kishore, Catherine P Riley, Jiri Adamec, Ozan Akkus

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Article in Clinical orthopaedics and related research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Umut Atakan GurkanHarvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 65 Landsdowne Street, PRB 252, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ugurkan@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Ryan Golden
Vipuil Kishore
Catherine P Riley
Jiri Adamec
Ozan Akkus
Case Western Reserve University · USBrigham and Women's Hospital · USMedical Research Associates · USPurdue University West Lafayette · USUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundBone marrow plays a key role in bone formation and healing. Although a subset of marrow explants ossifies in vitro without excipient osteoinductive factors, some explants do not undergo ossification. The disparity of outcome suggests a significant heterogeneity in marrow tissue in terms of its capacity to undergo osteogenesis. QUESTIONS/PURPOSES: We sought to identify: (1) proteins and signaling pathways associated with osteogenesis by contrasting the proteomes of ossified and poorly ossified marrow explants; and (2) temporal changes in proteome and signaling pathways of marrow ossification in the early and late phases of bone formation.

methodsExplants of marrow were cultured. Media conditioned by ossified (n = 4) and poorly ossified (n = 4) subsets were collected and proteins unique to each group were identified by proteomic analysis. Proteomic data were processed to assess proteins specific to the early phase (Days 1-14) and late phase (Days 15-28) of the culture period. Pathways involved in bone marrow ossification were identified through bioinformatics.

resultsTwenty-eight proteins were unique to ossified samples and eight were unique to poorly ossified ones. Twelve proteins were expressed during the early phase and 15 proteins were specific to the late phase. Several identified pathways corroborated those reported for bone formation in the literature. Immune and inflammatory pathways were specific to ossified samples.

conclusionsThe marrow explant model indicates the inflammatory and immune pathways to be an integral part of the osteogenesis process.

Indexed as

Ossification, HeterotopicOsteogenesisSignal TransductionAnimalsBone MarrowComputational BiologyCulture Media, ConditionedInflammation MediatorsProteomicsRatsRats, Long-EvansTime FactorsTissue Culture TechniquesX-Ray MicrotomographyCulture Media, ConditionedInflammation Mediators

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PMID22798134
PMCPMC3830098
OpenAlexW2078369164

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