Nicha Tokavanich

Control of alveolar bone development, homeostasis, and socket healing by salt inducible kinases

This study shows that deleting SIK2/SIK3 in alveolar bone reduces bone formation and mass by impairing osteoblast maturation, unlike in long bones where it increases bone formation and mass.

Control of osteocyte dendrite formation by Sp7 and its target gene osteocrin

This study identifies Sp7 and its target gene osteocrin as critical for osteocyte dendrite formation and shows their role in human skeletal diseases.

Chondrocytes in the resting zone of the growth plate are maintained in a Wnt-inhibitory environment

The paper identifies a Wnt-inhibitory environment maintaining resting zone chondrocytes and shows that Wnt activation disrupts their differentiation into columnar chondrocytes.