Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Periosteal stem cells control growth plate stem cells during postnatal skeletal growth

  • Masayuki Tsukasaki,
  • Noriko Komatsu,
  • Takako Negishi-Koga,
  • Nam Cong-Nhat Huynh,
  • Ryunosuke Muro,
  • Yutaro Ando,
  • Yuka Seki,
  • Asuka Terashima,
  • Warunee Pluemsakunthai,
  • Takeshi Nitta,
  • Takashi Nakamura,
  • Tomoki Nakashima,
  • Shinsuke Ohba,
  • Haruhiko Akiyama,
  • Kazuo Okamoto,
  • Roland Baron,
  • Hiroshi Takayanagi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31592-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Intramembranous and endochondral bone formation have been considered to be independent processes mediated by independent stem cells. Here the authors show that periosteal stem cells participate in both types of bone formation, supporting endochondral formation by producing Ihh.