Mesenchymal Stem Cell-Specific and Preosteoblast-Specific Ablation of TSC1 in Mice Lead to Severe and Slight Spinal Dysplasia, Respectively.
Cheng YangJianwen LiaoPinglin LaiHai HuangShicai FanYuhui ChenXiao-Chun BaiPublished in: BioMed research international (2020)
Our data suggest that the TSC1 gene is crucial for endochondral ossification during postnatal spine development but plays discriminative roles at different stages. Mesenchymal stem cell-specific ablation of TSC1 led to severe spinal dysplasia at early stages of endochondral ossification while osteoblast-specific deletion of TSC1 affected vertebrae slightly and had no detectable effects on intervertebral discs.