Runx2 is essential for the transdifferentiation of chondrocytes into osteoblasts

Growth plate borderline chondrocytes behave as transient mesenchymal precursor cells

(2019) Koji Mizuhashi et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH

Runx2, an inducer of osteoblast and chondrocyte differentiation

(2018) Toshihisa Komori   HISTOCHEMISTRY AND CELL BIOLOGY

Runx2 regulates cranial suture closure by inducing hedgehog, Fgf, Wnt, and Pthlh signaling pathway gene expression in suture mesenchymal cells

(2018) Xin Qin et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Resting zone of the growth plate houses a unique class of skeletal stem cells

(2018) Koji Mizuhashi et al.   NATURE

β-catenin activity in late hypertrophic chondrocytes locally orchestrates osteoblastogenesis and osteoclastogenesis

(2016) Astrid Houben et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Pannexin-1 and P2X7-Receptor Are Required for Apoptotic Osteocytes in Fatigued Bone to Trigger RANKL Production in Neighboring Bystander Osteocytes

(2016) Wing Yee Cheung et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH

Vegfa regulates perichondrial vascularity and osteoblast differentiation in bone development

(2015) X. Duan et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Chondrocytes Directly Transform into Bone Cells in Mandibular Condyle Growth

(2015) Y. Jing et al.   JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH

Dual pathways to endochondral osteoblasts: a novel chondrocyte-derived osteoprogenitor cell identified in hypertrophic cartilage

(2015) J. Park et al.   Biology Open

A subset of chondrogenic cells provides early mesenchymal progenitors in growing bones

(2014) Noriaki Ono et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Hypertrophic chondrocytes can become osteoblasts and osteocytes in endochondral bone formation

(2014) L. Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Chondrocytes Transdifferentiate into Osteoblasts in Endochondral Bone during Development, Postnatal Growth and Fracture Healing in Mice

(2014) Xin Zhou et al.   PLoS Genetics

Standardized nomenclature, symbols, and units for bone histomorphometry: A 2012 update of the report of the ASBMR Histomorphometry Nomenclature Committee

(2012) David W Dempster et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH

A multifunctional teal-fluorescent Rosa26 reporter mouse line for Cre- and Flp-mediated recombination

(2012) Itaru Imayoshi et al.   NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH

Osteoblast Precursors, but Not Mature Osteoblasts, Move into Developing and Fractured Bones along with Invading Blood Vessels

(2010) Christa Maes et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Signaling networks in RUNX2-dependent bone development

(2010) Toshihisa Komori   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY

Regulation of bone development and extracellular matrix protein genes by RUNX2

(2009) Toshihisa Komori   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Specific expression of Cre recombinase in hypertrophic cartilage under the control of a BAC-Col10a1 promoter

(2008) Sonja Gebhard et al.   MATRIX BIOLOGY