ArticleScientific reports2021
Osteocytes as main responders to low-intensity pulsed ultrasound treatment during fracture healing.
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- A systematic review of the biomechanical and biological impacts of ultrasound waves on skeletal tissues.Biomedical engineering online · 2026Pooled it
- Piezo1-mediated mechanotransduction in bone formation and fracture repair.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2026Review
- Loss of novel mechanosensitive ion channel TMEM63A impairs osteogenic differentiation and proliferation via disruption of cellular mechanotransduction.Mechanobiology in medicine · 2026Article
- Role of YAP/TAZ Mechanobiological Signaling in Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis.Calcified tissue international · 2026Review
- Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound regulates the osteogenic-adipogenic differentiation balance of rat adipose-derived stem cells via the PI3K/AKT-SREBF1 signaling axis.Stem cells translational medicine · 2026Article
- Harnessing piezoelectricity for bone tissue engineering: recapitulating the electrophysiological microenvironment through smart biomaterials.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2026Review
- The Effects and Mechanisms of Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound on Bone Remodeling: From Laboratory to Clinic.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasounds Modulate Adipose Stem Cells Differentiation.Stem cell reviews and reports · 2025Article
- [Advances of low-intensity pulsed ultrasound for treatment of musculoskeletal disorders in the past decade].Nan fang yi ke da xue xue bao = Journal of Southern Medical University · 2025Review
- The pivotal role of the Hes1/Piezo1 pathway in the pathophysiology of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.JCI insight · 2024Article
- Contributions of Resin Cast Etching to Visualising the Osteocyte Lacuno-Canalicular Network Architecture in Bone Biology and Tissue Engineering.Calcified tissue international · 2023Review
- Focused Low-Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound (FLIPUS) Mitigates Apoptosis of MLO-Y4 Osteocyte-like Cells.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- LIPUS as a potential strategy for periodontitis treatment: A review of the mechanisms.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2023Review
- Magnesium implantation or supplementation ameliorates bone disorder in CFTR-mutant mice through an ATF4-dependent Wnt/β-catenin signaling.Bioactive materials · 2022Article
- Emerging roles of growth factors in osteonecrosis of the femoral head.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Review
- Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound for Bone Tissue Engineering.Micromachines · 2021Review
- From the Matrix to the Nucleus and Back: Mechanobiology in the Light of Health, Pathologies, and Regeneration of Oral Periodontal Tissues.Biomolecules · 2021Review
- Zebrafish models for glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis.Tzu chi medical journalReview
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Abstract
Ultrasound stimulation is a type of mechanical stress, and low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) devices have been used clinically to promote fracture healing. However, it remains unclear which skeletal cells, in particular osteocytes or osteoblasts, primarily respond to LIPUS stimulation and how they contribute to fracture healing. To examine this, we utilized medaka, whose bone lacks osteocytes, and zebrafish, whose bone has osteocytes, as in vivo models. Fracture healing was accelerated by ultrasound stimulation in zebrafish, but not in medaka. To examine the molecular events induced by LIPUS stimulation in osteocytes, we performed RNA sequencing of a murine osteocytic cell line exposed to LIPUS. 179 genes reacted to LIPUS stimulation, and functional cluster analysis identified among them several molecular signatures related to immunity, secretion, and transcription. Notably, most of the isolated transcription-related genes were also modulated by LIPUS in vivo in zebrafish. However, expression levels of early growth response protein 1 and 2 (Egr1, 2), JunB, forkhead box Q1 (FoxQ1), and nuclear factor of activated T cells c1 (NFATc1) were not altered by LIPUS in medaka, suggesting that these genes are key transcriptional regulators of LIPUS-dependent fracture healing via osteocytes. We therefore show that bone-embedded osteocytes are necessary for LIPUS-induced promotion of fracture healing via transcriptional control of target genes, which presumably activates neighboring cells involved in fracture healing processes.
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