Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Regulation of heterotopic ossification by monocytes in a mouse model of aberrant wound healing

  • Michael Sorkin,
  • Amanda K. Huber,
  • Charles Hwang,
  • William F. Carson,
  • Rajasree Menon,
  • John Li,
  • Kaetlin Vasquez,
  • Chase Pagani,
  • Nicole Patel,
  • Shuli Li,
  • Noelle D. Visser,
  • Yashar Niknafs,
  • Shawn Loder,
  • Melissa Scola,
  • Dylan Nycz,
  • Katherine Gallagher,
  • Laurie K. McCauley,
  • Jiajia Xu,
  • Aaron W. James,
  • Shailesh Agarwal,
  • Stephen Kunkel,
  • Yuji Mishina,
  • Benjamin Levi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14172-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Aberrant tissue repair may result in heterotopic ossification (HO), but how this process is regulated by local inflammatory responses is still unclear. Here the authors show, using a mouse burn/trauma model, that TGFβ-producing monocytes/macrophages at the injury site contribute to HO induction, while CD47 activation helps antagonize this process.