Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Msx1+ stem cells recruited by bioactive tissue engineering graft for bone regeneration

  • Xianzhu Zhang,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Chang Xie,
  • Xinyu Wu,
  • Qian Ren,
  • Fei Wang,
  • Xilin Shen,
  • Yi Hong,
  • Hongwei Wu,
  • Youguo Liao,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Renjie Liang,
  • Wei Sun,
  • Yuqing Gu,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Yishan Chen,
  • Wei Wei,
  • Shufang Zhang,
  • Weiguo Zou,
  • Hongwei Ouyang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32868-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Critical-sized bone defects still present clinical challenges. Here the authors show that transplantation of neurotrophic supplement-incorporated hydrogel grafts promote full-thickness regeneration of the calvarium and perform scRNA-seq to reveal contributing stem/progenitor cells, notably a resident Msx1+ skeletal stem cell population.