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Seungyong Lee1,8, Charles Hwang2,8, Simone Marini3, Robert J. Tower4, Qizhi Qin1, Stefano Negri1,5, Chase A. Pagani2, Yuxiao Sun2, David M. Stepien2, Michael Sorkin2, Carrie A. Kubiak2, Noelle D. Visser2, Carolyn A. Meyers1, Yiyun Wang1, Husain A. Rasheed2, Jiajia Xu1, Sarah Miller1, Amanda K. Huber2, Liliana Minichiello6, Paul S. Cederna2, Stephen W. P. Kemp2, Thomas L. Clemens4,7, Aaron W. James1,* & Benjamin Levi2,*
1Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. 2Department of Surgery, Center for Organogenesis and Trauma, University of Texas, Southwestern, TX, USA. 3Department of Epidemiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. 4Department of Orthopaedics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. 5Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. 6Department of Pharmacology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK. 7Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA. 8These authors contributed equally: Seungyong Lee, Charles Hwang
*Corresponding author.
Abstract
Pain is a central feature of soft tissue trauma, which under certain contexts, results in aberrant osteochondral differentiation of tissue-specific stem cells. Here, the role of sensory nerve fibers in this abnormal cell fate decision is investigated using a severe extremity injury model in mice. Soft tissue trauma results in NGF (Nerve growth factor) expression, particularly within perivascular cell types. Consequently, NGF-responsive axonal invasion occurs which precedes osteocartilaginous differentiation. Surgical denervation impedes axonal ingrowth, with significant delays in cartilage and bone formation. Likewise, either deletion of Ngf or two complementary methods to inhibit its receptor TrkA (Tropomyosin receptor kinase A) lead to similar delays in axonal invasion and osteochondral differentiation. Mechanistically, single-cell sequencing suggests a shift from TGFβ to FGF signaling activation among pre-chondrogenic cells after denervation. Finally, analysis of human pathologic specimens and databases confirms the relevance of NGF-TrkA signaling in human disease. In sum, NGF-mediated TrkA-expressing axonal ingrowth drives abnormal osteochondral differentiation after soft tissue trauma. NGF-TrkA signaling inhibition may have dual therapeutic use in soft tissue trauma, both as an analgesic and negative regulator of aberrant stem cell differentiation.
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