Transition of endothelium to cartilage and bone.

Shoshani, Ofer; Zipori, Dov · Cell Stem Cell · 2011

review · Level V

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Abstract

Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are capable of differentiating into bone-forming osteoblasts. A recent Nature Medicine study (Medici et al., 2010) shows that the mislocalized bone in the human disease fibrodisplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) originates from vascular endothelium that gives rise to MSCs.