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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2021

Regulation and Role of Transcription Factors in Osteogenesis.

Wilson Cheuk Wing Chan, Zhijia Tan, Michael Kai Tsun To, Danny Chan

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 145 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
145citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
14.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

145 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 252 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Wilson Cheuk Wing ChanSchool of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
Zhijia TanDepartment of Orthopaedics Surgery and Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital (HKU-SZH), Shenzhen 518053, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2295-5169
Michael Kai Tsun ToDepartment of Orthopaedics Surgery and Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital (HKU-SZH), Shenzhen 518053, China.
Danny ChanSchool of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong.
University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital · CN

Funding

Health and Medical Research Fund 6173656Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee GRF17128817
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bone is a dynamic tissue constantly responding to environmental changes such as nutritional and mechanical stress. Bone homeostasis in adult life is maintained through bone remodeling, a controlled and balanced process between bone-resorbing osteoclasts and bone-forming osteoblasts. Osteoblasts secrete matrix, with some being buried within the newly formed bone, and differentiate to osteocytes. During embryogenesis, bones are formed through intramembraneous or endochondral ossification. The former involves a direct differentiation of mesenchymal progenitor to osteoblasts, and the latter is through a cartilage template that is subsequently converted to bone. Advances in lineage tracing, cell sorting, and single-cell transcriptome studies have enabled new discoveries of gene regulation, and new populations of skeletal stem cells in multiple niches, including the cartilage growth plate, chondro-osseous junction, bone, and bone marrow, in embryonic development and postnatal life. Osteoblast differentiation is regulated by a master transcription factor RUNX2 and other factors such as OSX/SP7 and ATF4. Developmental and environmental cues affect the transcriptional activities of osteoblasts from lineage commitment to differentiation at multiple levels, fine-tuned with the involvement of co-factors, microRNAs, epigenetics, systemic factors, circadian rhythm, and the microenvironments. In this review, we will discuss these topics in relation to transcriptional controls in osteogenesis.

Indexed as

AnimalsBone and BonesCell DifferentiationGene Expression RegulationHumansOsteogenesisTranscription FactorsTranscription, GeneticTranscription Factorsbonecircadian rhythmepigeneticsmicroRNAosteoblastosteoblast differentiationosteogenesisskeletogenesistranscription factor

Identifiers

PMID34064134
PMCPMC8196788
OpenAlexW3163895741

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