Abstract:
:Heterotopic ossification (HO) is a debilitating condition in which cartilage and bone forms in soft tissues such as muscle, tendon, and ligament causing immobility. This process is induced by inflammation associated with traumatic injury. In an extremely rare genetic disorder called fibrodysplasia ossificans progessiva (FOP), a combination of inflammation associated with minor soft tissue injuries and a hereditary genetic mutation causes massive HO that progressively worsens throughout the patients' lifetime leading to the formation of an ectopic skeleton. An activating mutation in the BMP type I receptor ALK2 has been shown to contribute to the heterotopic lesions in FOP patients, yet recent studies have shown that other events are required to stimulate HO including activation of sensory neurons, mast cell degranulation, lymphocyte infiltration, skeletal myocyte cell death, and endothelial-mesenchymal transition (EndMT). In this review, we discuss the recent evidence and mechanistic data that describe the cellular and molecular mechanisms that give rise to heterotopic bone.
journal_name
Histol Histopatholjournal_title
Histology and histopathologyauthors
Ramirez DM,Ramirez MR,Reginato AM,Medici Ddoi
10.14670/HH-29.1281subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-10-01 00:00:00pages
1281-5issue
10eissn
0213-3911issn
1699-5848pii
HH-11-492journal_volume
29pub_type
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