Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Targeting local lymphatics to ameliorate heterotopic ossification via FGFR3-BMPR1a pathway

  • Dali Zhang,
  • Junlan Huang,
  • Xianding Sun,
  • Hangang Chen,
  • Shuo Huang,
  • Jing Yang,
  • Xiaolan Du,
  • Qiaoyan Tan,
  • Fengtao Luo,
  • Ruobin Zhang,
  • Siru Zhou,
  • Wanling Jiang,
  • Zhenhong Ni,
  • Zuqiang Wang,
  • Min Jin,
  • Meng Xu,
  • Fangfang Li,
  • Liang Chen,
  • Mi Liu,
  • Nan Su,
  • Xiaoqing Luo,
  • Liangjun Yin,
  • Ying Zhu,
  • Jerry Q. Feng,
  • Di Chen,
  • Huabing Qi,
  • Lin Chen,
  • Yangli Xie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24643-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Different types of mesenchymal progenitors participate in ectopic bone formation. Here, the authors show Col2+ lineage cells adopt a lymphatic endothelium cell fate, which regulates local inflammatory microenvironment after trauma, thus influencing heterotopic ossification (HO) development via a FGFR3-BMPR1a pathway.