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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

NGF-TrkA signaling in sensory nerves is required for skeletal adaptation to mechanical loads in mice.

Ryan E Tomlinson, Zhi Li, Zhu Li, Liliana Minichiello, Ryan C Riddle, Arun Venkatesan, Thomas L Clemens

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 132 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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132citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

132 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 201 citations in OpenAlex.

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  19. Single-cell sequencing uncovers sensory neuron-mediated CGRP signaling as a driver of sarcoma progression.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Ryan E TomlinsonDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287.
Zhi LiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287.
Zhu LiDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287.
Liliana MinichielloDepartment of Pharmacology, Oxford University, Oxford, OX1 3QT, United Kingdom.
Ryan C RiddleDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287.
Arun VenkatesanDepartment of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287.
Thomas L ClemensDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21287; tclemen5@jhmi.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · USUnited States Department of Veterans Affairs · USUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Neuronal Regulation of Skeletal Development and RepairR01AR068934 · NIAMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI CLEMENS, THOMAS L · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR068934
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sensory nerves emanating from the dorsal root extensively innervate the surfaces of mammalian bone, a privileged location for the regulation of biomechanical signaling. Here, we show that NGF-TrkA signaling in skeletal sensory nerves is an early response to mechanical loading of bone and is required to achieve maximal load-induced bone formation. First, the elimination of TrkA signaling in mice harboring mutant TrkA

Indexed as

AnimalsMiceMice, Mutant StrainsMuscle, SkeletalNerve Growth FactorOsteoblastsOsteogenesisReceptor, trkASensory Receptor CellsWeight-BearingWnt Signaling PathwayNerve Growth FactorReceptor, trkAmechanical loadingnerve growth factorneurotrophic tyrosine kinase receptor type 1sensory nervesWnt signaling

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PMID28416686
PMCPMC5422802
OpenAlexW2606734627

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