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  2. Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva - Wikipedia

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    The protein that causes ossification is normally deactivated by an inhibitory protein after a fetus's bones are formed in the womb, but in patients with FOP, the protein keeps working. Aberrant bone formation in patients with FOP occurs when injured connective tissue or muscle cells at the sites of injury or growth incorrectly express an enzyme ...

  3. Osteogenesis imperfecta - Wikipedia

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    This mutation causes bone deformities, fractures, and delayed tooth eruption. [73] Type XIII – OI caused by a mutation in the bone morphogenetic protein 1 (BMP1) gene on chromosome 8p21.3. [74] This mutation causes recurrent fractures, high bone mass, and hypermobile joints. [75] Type XIV – OI caused by mutations in the TMEM38B gene on ...

  4. Bone morphogenetic protein - Wikipedia

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    Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are a group of growth factors also known as cytokines and as metabologens. [1] Professor Marshall Urist and Professor Hari Reddi discovered their ability to induce the formation of bone and cartilage, BMPs are now considered to constitute a group of pivotal morphogenetic signals, orchestrating tissue architecture throughout the body.

  5. Fibrous dysplasia of bone - Wikipedia

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    Bone pain is a common complication of fibrous dysplasia. It may present at any age, but most commonly develops during adolescence and progresses into adulthood. [7] Bone marrow stromal cells in fibrous dysplasia produce excess amounts of the phosphate-regulating hormone fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF23), leading to loss of phosphate in the ...

  6. Bone remodeling - Wikipedia

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    Bone tissue is removed by osteoclasts, and then new bone tissue is formed by osteoblasts. Both processes utilize cytokine (TGF-β, IGF) signalling.In osteology, bone remodeling or bone metabolism is a lifelong process where mature bone tissue is removed from the skeleton (a process called bone resorption) and new bone tissue is formed (a process called ossification or new bone formation).

  7. Osteocyte - Wikipedia

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    When osteocytes were experimentally destroyed, the bones showed a significant increase in bone resorption, decreased bone formation, trabecular bone loss, and loss of response to unloading. [ 6 ] Osteocytes are mechanosensor cells that control the activity of osteoblasts and osteoclasts [ 16 ] within a basic multicellular unit (BMU), a ...

  8. Osteoblast - Wikipedia

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    Bone is a highly vascular tissue, and active formation of blood vessel cells, also from mesenchymal stem cells, is essential to support the metabolic activity of bone. The balance of bone formation and bone resorption tends to be negative with age, particularly in post-menopausal women, [ 7 ] often leading to a loss of bone serious enough to ...

  9. Bone morphogenetic protein 2 - Wikipedia

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    The use of dual tapered threaded fusion cages and recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 on an absorbable collagen sponge obtained and maintained intervertebral spinal fusion, improved clinical outcomes, and reduced pain after anterior lumbar interbody arthrodesis in patients with degenerative lumbar disc disease. [18]