{"id":99520,"date":"2019-12-09T21:03:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T05:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/new-bone-healing-mechanism-has-potential-therapeutic-applications"},"modified":"2019-12-09T21:03:46","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T05:03:46","slug":"new-bone-healing-mechanism-has-potential-therapeutic-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/new-bone-healing-mechanism-has-potential-therapeutic-applications","title":{"rendered":"New bone healing mechanism has potential therapeutic applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-bone-healing-mechanism-has-potential-therapeutic-applications2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, a study published in the journal <i>Cell Stem Cell<\/i> reveals a new mechanism that contributes to adult bone maintenance and repair and opens the possibility of developing therapeutic strategies for improving bone healing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdult bone repair relies on the activation of bone stem cells, which still remain poorly characterized,\u201d said corresponding author Dr. Dongsu Park, assistant professor of molecular and human genetics and of pathology and immunology at Baylor. \u201cBone stem cells have been found both in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/bone+marrow\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bone marrow<\/a> inside the bone and also in the periosteum\u2014the outer layer of tissue\u2014that envelopes the bone. Previous studies have shown that these two populations of stem cells, although they share many characteristics, also have unique functions and specific regulatory mechanisms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the two, periosteal stem cells are the least understood. It is known that they comprise a heterogeneous population of cells that can contribute to bone thickness, shaping and fracture repair, but scientists had not been able to distinguish between different subtypes of bone stem cells to study how their different functions are regulated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, a study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell reveals a new mechanism that contributes to adult bone maintenance and repair and opens the possibility of developing therapeutic strategies for improving bone healing. \u201cAdult bone repair relies on the activation of bone stem cells, which still remain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}