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Role of altered signal transduction in heterotopic ossification and fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.
Current osteoporosis reports - 1 Jun 2011
Shore Eileen M, Kaplan Frederick S
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Heterotopic ossification is a pathologic condition in which bone tissue is formed outside of the skeleton, within soft tissues of the body. The extraskeletal bone that forms in these disorders is normal; the cellular mechanisms that direct cell fate decisions are dysregulated. Patients with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), a rare human genetic disorder of extensive and progressive heterotopic...
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