Thread: Thanks to @ECTS_science for inviting me to speak today on What is New in Basic Bone Biology Techniques at #ECTS2021. It is an overview of many interesting papers over the past 18 months, so to make it simple for listeners, here’s a thread of the papers I’ll discuss. 1/21
Osteoclast fission and fusion was first proposed in 1946, in this beautiful image from Hancox who wished he could see it live with “microcinephotography”. https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/jphysiol.1946.sp004153">https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11... #ECTS2021 2/21
Visualising the osteocyte network means we can start to map its beautiful complexity – there are 23 trillion connections in the osteocyte network, and enough dendritic processes to go 4x around the world #BiggerOnTheInside https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25708054/ ">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25708054/... #ECTS2021 5/21
That study focussed only on a slice of bone. Another recent study also used in vivo micro-computed tomography to show the response to mechanical load is co-ordinated at the organ level, leading to the increase in curvature. @apitsillides50
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/10/eaax8301">https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6... #ECTS2021 9/21
We’ve been using in vivo microCT @SVIResearch and noted that as bone matures, the level of mineralisation changes, even after shape is established. We measured bone mass at multiple densities. This revealed how bone matures with age. https://elifesciences.org/articles/56666 ">https://elifesciences.org/articles/... #ECTS2021 10/21
Some beautiful imaging with fluorescent-tagged antibodies and reporter mice has brought the bone vasculature back to our attention. This paper really showed very convincingly that, just like human bone, murine bone is heavily vascularised: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6795552/">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic... #ECTS2021 13/21
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