Keep your Sox on, chondrocytes!

Andrew A Pitsillides¹, Frank Beier^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Skeletal Biology Group, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK. apitsillides@rvc.ac.uk.
² Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. fbeier@uwo.ca.
³ Bone and Joint Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. fbeier@uwo.ca.

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Andrew A Pitsillides et al. Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2021 Jul.

. 2021 Jul;17(7):383-384.

doi: 10.1038/s41584-021-00628-9.

Andrew A Pitsillides¹, Frank Beier^{2

3}

¹ Skeletal Biology Group, Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK. apitsillides@rvc.ac.uk.
² Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. fbeier@uwo.ca.
³ Bone and Joint Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. fbeier@uwo.ca.

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SOX9 keeps growth plates and articular cartilage healthy by inhibiting chondrocyte dedifferentiation/osteoblastic redifferentiation.
Haseeb A, Kc R, Angelozzi M, de Charleroy C, Rux D, Tower RJ, Yao L, Pellegrino da Silva R, Pacifici M, Qin L, Lefebvre V. Haseeb A, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Feb 23;118(8):e2019152118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2019152118. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021. PMID: 33597301 Free PMC article.

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