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Characterization of the gut-bone marrow axis through bile acid signaling

Communication between the intestine and other organs such as the lungs, brain or bones is mediated by several metabolites, like short-chain fatty acids or bile acids, that relay information about nutritional and microbiota status. Bile acids are endogenous ...

EPFL2024

New approaches to uncover the minimally functional hematopoietic niche using the adipocytic differentiation axis: pharmacological modulation and adrenal niche induction

Frédérica Schyrr

Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells (HSPCs) reside in their niche, a structure that regulates the balance of cellular quiescence, self-renewal and commitment towards differentiated cells. This highly plastic niche is formed by several cellular players, ...

EPFL2022

Age- and sex-specific normative values of bone mineral density in the adult glenoid

Dominique Pioletti, Alexandre Terrier, Philippe Büchler, Alain Farron, Frédéric Vauclair, Patrick Goetti

The objective of this study was to determine the normative bone mineral density (BMD) of cortical and trabecular bone regions in the adult glenoid and its dependence on the subject's age and sex. We analyzed computed tomography (CT) scans of 441 shoulders ...

WILEY2022

The effects of time-restricted eating and weight loss on bone metabolism and health: a 6-month randomized controlled trial

Alexandra Hemmer, Nicholas Edward Phillips

Objective This study explored the impact of time-restricted eating (TRE) versus standard dietary advice (SDA) on bone health. Methods Adults with >= 1 component of metabolic syndrome were randomized to TRE (ad libitum eating within 12 hours) or SDA (food p ...

WILEY2022

Fast 3D Modeling of Prosthetic Robotic Hands Based on a Multi-Layer Deformable Design

Daniel Thalmann

Current research of designing prosthetic robotic hands mainly focuses on improving their functionality by devising new mechanical structures and actuation systems. Most of existing work relies on a single structure/system (e.g., bone-only or tissue-only) a ...

WHIOCE PUBLISHING PTE LTD, SINGAPORE2022

Overcorrected Implants for Total Shoulder Arthroplasty

Yasmine Boulanaache

Glenohumeral osteoarthritis is a degenerative shoulder joint disease, which causes the breakdown of articular cartilage and bone. People affected by this disease suffer from severe pain and eventually reduced mobility and poor life quality. This disease is ...

EPFL2021

Microtensile failure mechanisms in lamellar bone: Influence of fibrillar orientation, specimen size and hydration

Johann Michler, Daniele Casari, Tatiana Kochetkova

A mechanistic understanding of bone fracture is indispensable for developing improved fracture risk assessment in clinics. Since bone is a hierarchically structured material, gaining such knowledge requires analysis at multiple length scales. Here, the ten ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Atomistic simulation and electron microscopy to characterize grain boundaries in doped beta-tricalcium phosphate ceramics

Gabrielle Anne Laguisma Sblendorio

The limitations and potential complications correlated with autogenous bone grafts have raised interest in the development of synthetic bone graft substitutes. ß-tricalcium phosphate (ß-TCP) is one of the most promising materials for synthetic bone graft s ...

EPFL2021

SIRT7 modulates the stability and activity of the renal K-Cl cotransporter KCC4 through deacetylation

Olivier Staub, Johan Auwerx, Lilia Noriega Lopez, Dongryeol Ryu

SIRT7 is a NAD(+)-dependent deacetylase that controls important aspects of metabolism, cancer, and bone formation. However, the molecular targets and functions of SIRT7 in the kidney are currently unknown. In silico analysis of kidney transcripts of the BX ...

2021

Quantitative approaches to unravel bone marrow adipocyte site-specificity and its implication in hematopoiesis

Josefine Catharina Pedersen Tratwal

Over the last decade, bone marrow (BM) adipose tissue (BMAT) has emerged as a distinct adipose depot with unique metabolic properties and effects both in homeostasis and in the progression of disease. We provide a first comprehensive review of existing an ...

EPFL2020

Smart Hydrogels for the Augmentation of Bone Regeneration by Endogenous Mesenchymal Progenitor Cell Recruitment

Matthias Lütolf, Vincent Milleret, Aline Roch, Stéphanie Elisabeth Metzger, Philipp Sebastian Lienemann, Martin Ehrbar, Olaia Maria Naveiras Torres-Quiroga, Panagiota Papageorgiou, Queralt Vallmajó Martín, Manuel Koch

The treatment of bone defects with recombinant bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) requires high doses precluding broad clinical application. Here, a bioengineering approach is presented that strongly improves low-dose BMP-2-based bone regeneration by mob ...

WILEY2020

MarrowQuantAcross Aging and Aplasia: A Digital Pathology Workflow for Quantification of Bone Marrow Compartments in Histological Sections

Nicolas Kunz, Olivier Burri, Olaia Maria Naveiras Torres-Quiroga, Vasco Ledebur de Antas de Campos, Chiheb Boussema, Frédérica Schyrr, Josefine Catharina Pedersen Tratwal, Shanti Rojas-Sutterlin, Rita Sarkis, Daniel Naveed Tavakol

The bone marrow (BM) exists heterogeneously as hematopoietic/red or adipocytic/yellow marrow depending on skeletal location, age, and physiological condition. Mouse models and patients undergoing radio/chemotherapy or suffering acute BM failure endure rapi ...

2020

Sub-trabecular strain evolution in human trabecular bone

Alessandra Patera, Goran Lovric

To comprehend the most detrimental characteristics behind bone fractures, it is key to understand the material and tissue level strain limits and their relation to failure sites. The aim of this study was to investigate the three-dimensional strain distrib ...

NATURE RESEARCH2020

Bioengineering human bone marrow models to elucidate the triggers of the stem cell niche

Queralt Vallmajó Martín

The bone marrow (BM) microenvironment, or niche, significantly affects behaviors of its resident stem cell populations. Disruptions in the BM niche contribute to a number of severe clinical pathologies. Discovery of novel therapeutic strategies for BM-rela ...

EPFL2019

Relationships between cartilage thickness and subchondral bone mineral density in non-osteoarthritic and severely osteoarthritic knees: In vivo concomitant 3D analysis using CT arthrography

Julien Favre, Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli

Objective: To test whether subchondral bone mineral density (sBMD) and cartilage thickness (CTh) of femoral condyles are correlated in knees without and with severe medial femorotibial osteoarthritis (OA), using a subregional analysis with computerized tom ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Effect of temporal onsets of mechanical loading on bone formation inside a tissue engineering scaffold combined with cell therapy

Dominique Pioletti, Tanja Cloé Hausherr

Several approaches to combine bone substitutes with biomolecules, cells or mechanical loading have been explored as an alternative to the limitation and risk-related bone auto- and allo-grafts. In particular, human bone progenitor cells seeded in porous po ...

2018

Non-setting, injectable biomaterials containing particulate hydroxyapatite can increase primary stability of bone screws in cancellous bone

Dominique Pioletti, Jorge Solana Munoz, Ulrike Kettenberger

BACKGROUND: Fracture fixation in weak bone is still a clinical challenge. Screw augmentation was shown to successfully increase their primary stability. The currently used calcium phosphate or polymeric bone cements, however, present important drawbacks su ...

2018

Fast H isotope and impurity mixing in ion-temperature-gradient turbulence

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Robin Humphry-Baker, Stefano Coda, Martinus Gijs, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Julio Rodriguez, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Rebecca Hill, Daniel Scott Alessi, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Pierre-Thomas Paul Brun, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Hamish William Patten, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Li Shuai, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, , , , , , , , , ,

Human bone progenitor cells for clinical application: what kind of immune reaction does fetal xenograft tissue trigger in immuno-competent rats?

Dominique Pioletti, Tanja Cloé Hausherr, Lee Ann Laurent-Applegate

The potential of human fetal bone cells for successful bone regeneration has been shown in vivo. In particular, it has been demonstrated that the seeding of these cells in porous poly-(L-lactic acid)/ ß-tricalcium phosphate scaffolds improved the bone form ...

Cognizant Communication Corp2017

In vitro and in vivo investigation of bisphosphonate-loaded hydroxyapatite particles for peri-implant bone augmentation

Dominique Pioletti, Ulrike Kettenberger

Locally applied bisphosphonates, such as Zoledronate, have been shown in several studies to inhibit peri-implant bone resorption and recently to enhance peri-implant bone formation. Studies have also demonstrated positive effects of hydroxyapatite particle ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017