In an accompanying commentary, Dwight A. Towler from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, states that "given our limited understanding of how MSCs become tenocytes, the recent progress demonstrated in these studies is quite remarkable and may be potentially useful in cell-based therapeutic approaches to musculoskeletal injuries."
TITLE: Neotendon formation induced by manipulation of the Smad8 signaling pathway in mesenchymal stem cells
AUTHOR CONTACT:
Dan Gazit
Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Phone: 972-2-6757627; Fax: 972-2-6757628; E-mail: dgaz@cc.huji.ac.il
View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/article.php?id=22689
ACCOMPANYING COMMENTARY:
TITLE: The alchemy of tendon repair: a primer for the (S)mad scientist
AUTHOR CONTACT:
Dwight A. Towler
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Phone: (314) 454-7434; Fax: (314) 454-8434; E-mail: dtowler@im.wustl.edu
View the PDF of this article at: https://www.the-jci.org/article.php?id=28320
Journal of Clinical Investigation