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ReviewNature reviews. Endocrinology2025

Skeletal stem and progenitor cells in bone physiology, ageing and disease.

Seppe Melis, Dana Trompet, Andrei S Chagin, Christa Maes

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Review in Nature reviews. Endocrinology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Chondrogenic Potential of Periosteum-Derived Cells.Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy : offizielles Organ der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Transfusionsmedizin und Immunhamatologie · 2026
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  13. Three-dimensional architecture of human bone marrow.Nature biomedical engineering · 2026
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  16. Bridging skeletal stem cell diversity and human skeletal modeling.Journal of bone and mineral metabolism · 2026
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  18. Fibrous-layer resident Angptl7Cell research · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Seppe MelisLaboratory of Skeletal Cell Biology and Physiology (SCEBP), Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center (SBE), Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5681-7122
Dana TrompetLaboratory of Skeletal Cell Biology and Physiology (SCEBP), Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center (SBE), Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9472-6184
Andrei S ChaginDepartment of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, Institute of Medicine, Centre for Bone and Arthritis Research at the Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2696-5850
Christa MaesLaboratory of Skeletal Cell Biology and Physiology (SCEBP), Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center (SBE), Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. christa.maes@kuleuven.be.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4243-5486

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Skeletal stem cells (SSCs) and related progenitors with osteogenic potential, collectively termed skeletal stem and/or progenitor cells (SSPCs), are crucial for providing osteoblasts for bone formation during homeostatic tissue turnover and fracture repair. Besides mediating normal bone physiology, they also have important roles in various metabolic bone diseases, including osteoporosis. SSPCs are of tremendous interest because they represent prime future targets for osteoanabolic therapies and bone regenerative medicine. Remarkable progress has been made in characterizing various SSC and SSPC populations in postnatal bone. SSPCs exist in the periosteum and within the bone marrow stroma, including subsets localizing around arteriolar and sinusoidal blood vessels; they can display osteogenic, chondrogenic, adipogenic and/or fibroblastic potential, and exert critical haematopoiesis-supportive functions. However, much remains to be clarified. By the current markers, bona fide SSCs are commonly contained within broader SSPC populations characterized by considerable heterogeneity and overlap, whose common versus specific functions in health and disease have not been fully unravelled. Here, we review the present knowledge of the identity, fates and relationships of SSPC populations in the postnatal bone environment, their contributions to bone maintenance, the changes observed upon ageing, and the effect of metabolic diseases such as osteoporosis and diabetes mellitus.

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AgingBone and BonesStem CellsAnimalsHumansOsteogenesisOsteoporosis

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