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February 13, 2012Wosczyna MN, Biswas AA, Cogswell CA, Goldhamer DJ. Multipotent progenitors resident in the skeletal muscle interstitium exhibit robust BMP-dependent osteogenic activity and mediate heterotopic ossification.
January 16, 2012Hsiao EC, Millard SM, Louie A, Huang Y, Conklin BR, Nissenson RA. Ligand-Mediated Activation of an Engineered Gs G Protein-Coupled Receptor in Osteoblasts Increases Trabecular Bone Formation.
December 12, 2011Shimono K, Tung WE, Macolino C, Chi AH, Didizian JH, Mundy C, Chandraratna RA, Mishina Y, Enomoto-Iwamoto M, Pacifici M, Iwamoto M. Potent inhibition of heterotopic ossification by nuclear retinoic acid receptor-gamma agonists.
November 14, 2011Li G, Zheng B, Meszaros LB, Vella JB, Usas A, Matsumoto T, Huard J. Identification and characterization of chondrogenic progenitor cells in the fascia of postnatal skeletal muscle.
October 10, 2011Zaiss MM, Axmann R, Zwerina J, Polzer K, Guckel E, Skapenko A, Schulze-Koops H, Horwood N, Cope A, Schett G. Treg cells suppress osteoclast formation: a new link between the immune system and bone.
September 12, 2011Liu Y, Wang L, Fatahi R, Kronenberg M, Kalajzic I, Rowe D, Li Y, Maye P. Isolation of murine bone marrow derived mesenchymal stem cells using Twist2 Cre transgenic mice.
February 27, 2006Reem Kanaan, Steven Lietman, Changlin Ding, David Cooke, Michael Levine. Reduction in Gsa induces osteogenic differentiation in human mesenchymal stem cells. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 434: 231-238, 2005.
January 26, 2006David Glaser, Toshiyuki Matsuoka, Per E. Ahlberg, Nicoletta Kessaris, Palma Iannarelli, Ulla Dennehy, William D. Richardson, Andrew P. McMahon and Georgy Koentges. Neural crest origins of the neck and shoulder. Nature 436: 347-355, 2005.
December 19, 2005Jennifer Fiori, Stephen E. Kendall, Chiara Battelli, Sarah Irwin, Jane G. Mitchell, Carlotta A. Glackin, and Joseph M. Verdi. NRAGE mediates p38 activation and neural progenitor apoptosis via the bone morphogenetic protein signaling cascade. Molecular and Cellular Biology 25(17): 7711-7724, 2005.
November 3, 2005Paul Billings, Didier Montarras, Jennifer Morgan, Charlotte Collins, Frederic Relaix, Stephane Zaffran, Ana Cumano, Terence Partridge, Margaret Buckingham. Direct isolation of satellite cells for skeletal muscle regeneration. Science 309: 2064-2067, 2005.
October 24, 2005George Feldman, Laurie A. Boyer, et al (2005). Core transcriptional regulatory circuitry in human embryonic stem cells. Cell 122: 1-10.
August 11, 2005Berangere Saucy, A. Afshan Ali, Robert S. Weinstein, Scott A. Stewart, A. Michael Parfitt, Stavros C. Manolagas, and Robert L. Jilka. Rosiglitazone causes bone loss in mice by suppressing osteoblast differentiation and bone formation. Endocrinology 146(3): 1226-1235, 2005.
April 28, 2005Paul Billings, Trina K. Jeffery, Paul D. Upton, Richard C. Trembath and Nicholas W. Morrell. BMP4 inhibits proliferation and promotes myocyte differentiation of lung fibroblasts via Smad1 and JNK pathways. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 288:L370-L378, 2005.
February 22, 2005Reem Kanaan, Jie Liu, Julie G. Nealon and Lee S. Weinstein (2005). Distinct patterns of abnormal GNAS imprinting in familial and sporadic pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1B. Human Molecular Genetics 14 (1): 95-102.
January 25, 2005George Feldman, Ritsert C. Jansen and Jan-Peter Nap (2004). Regulating gene expression: surprises still in store. Trends Genet 20(5):223-225. Gael Yvert, et al (2003). Trans-acting regulatory variation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the role of transcription factors. Nature Genetics 35(1): 57-64.
December 14, 2004 Gisela Melcon, M.D., Research Associate: Jan Hellemans et al (2004). Loss-of-function mutations in LEMD3 result in osteopoikilosis, Buschke-Ollendorff syndrome and melorheostosis. Nature Genetics 36(11): 1213-1218.
November 16, 2004 Jennifer Fiori, Graduate Student:Hui-Kuan Lin, Stephan Bergmann & Pier Paolo Pandolfi (2004). Cytoplasmic PML function in TGF-Beta signalling. Nature 431:205-211. Christine LeRoy and Jeffrey L. Wrana (2004). An unexpected social servant Nature 431:142.
October 26, 2004 Paul Billings, Ph.D., Research Associate:Lixin Kan, Min Hu, William A. Gomes, and John A. Kessler Transgenic Mice Overexpressing BMP4 Develop a Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP)-Like Phenotype. American Journal of Pathology 165: 1107-1115, 2004
July 28, 2004 Reem Kanaan, PhD, Research Associate:Piero Crespo, Teresa G. Cachero, Ningzhi Xu, and J. Silvio Gutkind. Dual Effect of Adrenergic Receptors on Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase. Journal of Biological Chemistry 270: (42) 25259-25265, 1995.
June 23, 2004 George Feldman, D.M.D., Ph.D., Research Associate: Peter Bialek, et al. A Twist Code Determines the Onset of Osteoblast Differentiation. Developmental Cell 6: 423-435, 2004.
May 27, 2004 Brett Gibson, M.D., Orthopaedic Resident:Joanna L. Ford, Derek E. Robinson, Brigitte E. Scammell. (2004) Endochondral ossification in fracture callus during long bone repair: the localisation of 'cavity-lining cells' within the cartilage. Journal of Orthopaedic Research 22, 368-375.
April 28, 2004 XiangYang Jaio, M.D., Research Associate: William F. Pendergraft, Gloria A. Preston, Ruchir R. Shah, Alexander Tropsha, Charles W. Carter, J. Charles Jennette, Ronald J. Falk. Autoimmunity is triggered by cPR-3 (105-201), a protein complementary to human autoantigen proteinase-3. Nature Medicine 10(1):72-79, 2004.
March 24, 2004 Paul Billings, Ph.D., Research Associate:Seto, H., Kamekura, S., Miura, T., Yamamoto, A. Chikuda, H., Ogata, T., Hiraoka, H., Oda, H., Nakamura, K., Kurosawa, H., Chug, U.I., Kawaguchi, H. and Tanaka, S. Distinct roles of Smad pathways and p38 pathways in cartilage-specific gene expression in synovial fibroblasts. Journal of Clinical Investigation 113: 718-726, 2004 Byfield, S.D. and Roberts, A.B. Lateral signaling enhances TGF-b response complexity. Trends in Cell Biology 14: 107-111, 2004
February 18, 2004 Reem Kanaan, Ph.D., Research Associate: Spinella-Jaegle, S. Roman-Roman, C. Faucheu, F.-W. Dunn, S. Kawai, S. Gallea, V. Stiot, A.M. Blanchet, B. Courtois, R. Baron, and G. Rawadi. Opposite effects of bone morphogenetic protein-2 and transforming growth factor-1 on osteoblast differentiation. Bone 29(4):323-330, 2001.
January 28, 2004 Paul Billings, Ph.D., Research Associate:Rajiv D. Machado, Nung Rudarakanchana, Carl Atkinson, Julia A. Flanagan, Rachel Harrison, Nicholas W. Morrell and Richard C. Trembath. Functional interaction between BMPR-II and Tctex-1, a light chain of Dynein, is isoform-specific and disrupted by mutations underlying primary pulmonary hypertension. Human Molecular Genetics, Vol. 12(24): 3277-3286, 2003.Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan and Harald Stenmark. Endocytosis and Signaling: A Relationship under Development. Cell, 115:513-521, November 26, 2003.
December 23, 2003 George Feldman, D.M.D., Ph.D. Research Associate:Frank B. Dean, Seiyu Hosono, Linhua Fang, Xiaohong Wu, A. Fawad Faruqi, Patricia Bray-Ward, Zhenyu Sun, Qiuling Zong, Yuefen Du, Jing Du, Mark Driscoll, Wanmin Song, Stephen F. Kingsmore, Michael Egholm, and Roger S. Lasken. Comprehensive human genome amplification using multiple displacement amplification. PNAS 99(8): 5261-5266, April 16, 2002.
Novermber 19, 2003 Brett Gibson, M.D., Orthopaedic Resident:TBA
October 29, 2003 Jennifer Fiori, Graduate Student:Shepherd T. and Nachtigal, M. Identification of a Putative Autocrine Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling Pathway in Human Ovarian Surface Epithelium and Ovarian Cancer Cells. Endocrinology 2003; 144(8):3306-3314. Fu, Y., O'Connor, L., Shepherd, T., Nachtigal, M. The p38 Inhibitor, PD169316, Inhibits Transforming Growth Factor Beta Induced Smad Signaling in Human Ovarian Cancer Cells. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 2003; 310:391-397.
August 27, 2003 Chuanzhao Li, Ph.D., Research Associate: Haleem J. Issaq, Timothy D. Veenstra, Thomas P. Conrads, and Donna Felschow. The SELDI-TOF MS Approach to Proteomics: Protein Profiling and Biomarker Identification. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 2002; 292: 587-592. Lisa H. Cazares, Bao-Ling Adam, Michael D. Ward, Suhail Nasim, Paul F. Schellhammer, O. John Semmes and George L. Wright, Jr. Normal, Benign, Preneoplastic, and Malignant Prostate Cells Have Distinct Protein Expression Profiles Resolved by Surface Enhanced Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Clinical Cancer Research 2002; 8: 2541-2552.
July 30, 2003 XiangYang Jaio, M.D., Research Associate: Warren, S.M., Burnet, L.J., Harland, R.M., Economides, A.N., Longaker, M.T. The BMP antagonist noggin regulates cranial suture fusion. Nature 2003; 422:625-629.
May 28, 2003 George Feldman, D.M.D., Ph.D., Research Associate: Y.Kanzaki, F. Onoue, H. Sakurai, and T. Ide (2003). Telomerase upregulates expression levels of interleukin (IL)-1 alpha, IL-1 beta, IL-6, IL-8 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor in normal human fibroblasts. BBRC 305: 150-154.C. Lindvall, M. Hou, T. Komurasaki, C. Zheng, M. Henriksson, J. Sedivy, M. Bjorkholm, B.T. Teh, M. Nordenskjold, and D. Xu (2003). Molecular Characterization of Human Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase-immortalized Human Fibroblasts by Gene Expression Profiling: Activation of the Epiregulin Gene1,2. Cancer Research 63, 1743-1747.D.Aisner, W. Wright, and J. Shay (2002). Telomerase regulation: not just flipping the switch. Oncogenes and cell proliferation, 80-85.
February 11 , 2003 Jen Fiori, Graduate Student: G. Praveen Raju, Neviana Dimova, Peter S. Klein, and Hui-Chuan Huang (2003). SANE, a Novel LEM Domain Protein, Regulates Bone Morphogenetic Protein Signaling through Interaction with Smad1. Journal of Biological Chemistry 278(1): 428-437.
January 28, 2003 Paul Billings, Ph.D. Research Associate:TBA
December 17, 2002 Shelby Blythe, Graduate Student:Shu Takeda, Florent Elefteriou, Regis Levasseur, Xiuyun Liu, Liping Zhao, Keith L. Parker, Dawna Armstrong, Patricia Ducy and Gerard Karsenty (2002). Leptin regulates bone formation via the sympathetic nervous system. Cell 111, 305-317.
November 26, 2002 Bob Pignolo, M.D., Ph.D. Research Fellow:Transdifferentiation Into Osteoblasts: Jeremy Skillington, Lisa Choy and Rik Derynck (2002). Bone morphogenetic protein and retinoic acid signaling cooperate to induce osteoblast differentiation of preadipocytes. The Journal of Cell Biology 159 (1):135-146.
October 15 , 2002 George Feldman, D.M.D., Ph.D. Research Associate: Gerald R. Crabtree and Eric N. Olson (2002). NFAT Signaling: Choreographing the Social Lives of Cells. Cell 109:S67-S79.Ann M. Ranger, Louis C. Gerstenfeld, Jinxi Wang, Tamiyo Kon, Hyunsu Bae, Ellen M. Gravallese, Melvin J. Glimcher, and Laurie H. Glimcher (2000). The Nuclear Factor of Activated T Cells (NFAT) Transcription Factor NFATp (NFATc2) Is a Repressor of Chondrogenesis. J. Exp. Med 191:9-21.Masuhiro Tomita, Martina I. Reinhold, Jeffery D. Molkentin, Michael C. Naski (2002). Calcineurin and NFAT4 Induce Chondrogenesis. JBC Papers in Press. Published on September 17, 2002.
July 30, 2002 Deyu Zhang, Research Associate:X. Han and S. Amar (2002). Identification of Genes Differentially Expressed in Cultured Human Periodontal Ligament Fibroblasts vs. Human Gingival Fibroblasts by DNA Microarray Analysis. J Dent Res 81(6):399-405.
July 2, 2002 Chuanzhao Li, Ph.D., Research Associate:Nakashima K., Zhou X., Kunkel G., Zhang Z., Deng JM., Behringer RR., and de Crombrugghe B (2002). The novel zinc finger-containing transcription factor osterix is required for osteoblast differentiation and bone formation. Cell. 108(1):17-29, 2002 Jan 11.
June 4, 2002 Yangguan Wu, M.D., Research Associate:Kenneth W. Liechty, Tippi C. MacKenzie, Aimen F. Shaaban, Antoneta Radu, AnneMarie B. Moseley, Robert Deans, Daniel R. Marshak and Alan W. Flake (2000). Human mesenchymal stem cells engraft and demonstrate site-specific differentiation after in utero transplantation in sheep. Nature Medicine 6(11):1282-1286.William M. Rideout III, Konrad Hochedlinger, Michael Kyba, George Q Daley, and Rudolf Jaenisch (2002). Correction of a genetic defect by nuclear transplantation and combined cell and gene therapy. Cell 109: 17-27.
April 23, 2002 Lourdes Serrano de la Pena, Ph.D. Post Doc:Anja Nohe, Sylke Hassel, Marcelo Ehrlich, Florian Neubauer, Walter Sebald, Yoav I. Henis, and Petra Knaus (2002). The Mode of Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) Receptor Oligomerization Determines Different BMP-2 Signaling Pathways. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 277(7): 5330-5338.
March 26, 2002 George Feldman, D.M.D., Ph.D., Research Associate:Trey Ideker, Vesteinn Thorsson, Jeffrey A. Ranish, Rowan Christman, Jeremy Buhler, Jimmy K. Eng, Roger Bumgarner, David R. Goodlett, Ruedi Aebersold, Leroy Hood (2001). Integrated Genomic and Proteomic Analyses of a Systematically Perturbed Metabolic Network. Science, Vol. 292:929-933.
March 5, 2002 Paul Billings, Ph.D., Research Associate:Askew GR, Doetschman T and Lingrel JB (1993). Site-directed point mutations in embryonic stem cells: a gene-targeting tag-and-exchange strategy Mol Cell Biol 13, 4115-4124. Stem cells: A primer. National Institutes of Health May 2000.

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