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ArticleCells2024

Unique Spatial Transcriptomic Profiling of the Murine Femoral Fracture Callus: A Preliminary Report.

Will Jiang, Dennis L Caruana, Jungho Back, Francis Y Lee

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Article in Cells, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Advances in Spatial Transcriptomics in Bone.Current osteoporosis reports · 2026
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  5. Spatial transcriptomic applications in orthopedics.Connective tissue research · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Will JiangDepartment of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine, 47 College Place, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Dennis L CaruanaDepartment of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine, 47 College Place, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3431-2657
Jungho BackDepartment of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine, 47 College Place, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
Francis Y LeeDepartment of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation, Yale School of Medicine, 47 College Place, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.

Funding

Modification of Bone Grafts for Orthopaedic ProceduresR01AR068353 · NIAMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LEE, FRANCIS YOUNG-IN · 2015 to 2020
$2.7M
Non-hormonal function of locally delivered PTH for rescue of impaired fracture healingR01AR073607 · NIAMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LEE, FRANCIS YOUNG-IN · 2019 to 2023
$2.4M
Bone and Breast Cancer Molecular InteractionsR01CA203011 · NCI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LEE, FRANCIS YOUNG-IN · 2016 to 2020
$2.3M
Rescuing impaired fracture healing by molecular targetingR01AR081656 · NIAMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Francis Young-In Lee · 2024 to 2026
$1.5M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA203011NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR068353NIAMS NIH HHS R01AR068353NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR073607NIAMS NIH HHS R01AR073607NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR081656NIAMS NIH HHS R01AR081656NIAMS NIH HHS R01CA203011
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fracture callus formation is a dynamic stage of bone activity and repair with precise, spatially localized gene expression. Metastatic breast cancer impairs fracture healing by disrupting bone homeostasis and imparting an altered genomic profile. Previous sequencing techniques such as single-cell RNA and in situ hybridization are limited by missing spatial context and low throughput, respectively. We present a preliminary approach using the Visium CytAssist spatial transcriptomics platform to provide the first spatially intact characterization of genetic expression changes within an orthopedic model of impaired fracture healing. Tissue slides prepared from BALB/c mice with or without MDA-MB-231 metastatic breast cancer cells were used. Both unsupervised clustering and histology-based annotations were performed to identify the hard callus, soft callus, and interzone for differential gene expression between the wild-type and pathological fracture model. The spatial transcriptomics platform successfully localized validated genes of the hard (

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Bony CallusFemoral FracturesAnimalsFracture HealingGene Expression ProfilingMicefracture callusinterzonemetastatic breast cancerpathological fracturespatial transcriptomics

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PMID38534368
PMCPMC10969736

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