ECTS Newsletter | August 2021

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Announcements and Events

Society’s life:

Be part of ECTS in 2021: become member of a dynamic community in the musculoskeletal field and take advantage from a wide range of benefits. – Join or renew your membership now – View the membership benefit
Let us know if you would like to be actively involved in ECTS activities and you may be called to be part in one of our committees or action groups. Become an ECTS member here and complete an online form here
Get Ready: On 1st September we will open the 2022 applications for ECTS Academy and for our Fellowship programme. Check eligibility criteria and application process on ECTS website.

Education and Events:

Webinar Skeletal Stem and Progenitor cells for the Osteoblast Lineage: Origin, Regulation and Functioning, 19 August 2021, 4-5pm CEST. Join speaker Christa Maes here.
ECTS-GEMSTONE Digital Masterclass: 24 – 27 August 2021, last chance to register here
ECTS 2021 Clinical Training Course on Metabolic Bone Diseases, 2-3 September – Now CME Accredited. Check the programme and register here
NEW: Webinar Series on Rare Bone Diseases! First webinar on Hereditary Hypophosphatemia to be held on 20 October. Learn more about the series and register here.
Bone, Muscle & Beyond Webinars: 2021 calendar – Check it out & register

Other Announcements and Events :

NCRI Bone Metastasis Initiative: Help them shape their bone metastasis research strategy by participating in a short survey – open until 16 August 2021
9th Seoul International Congress of Endocrinology and Metabolism in conjunction with the 40th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Korean Endocrine Society (SICEM 2021), 28-30 October 2021. Abstract submission deadline 9 September 2021. Check the programme and submit your abstract here.
1st Athens Foot and Ankle Arthroscopy Symposium, 25 – 26 September 2021. More info here.
ESA-SRB-ANZBMS 2021 Annual Scientific Meetings, 21-24 November 2021. Abstract submission deadline 13 August 2021. Check the programme and submit your abstract here.
14th International Conference on Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Sheffield, UK, 30 August – 2 September 2022
ICCBH Bone School, Dublin, Ireland, 29 June – 1 July 2022 – More info here
10th International Conference on Children’s Bone Health, Dublin, Ireland, 2 -5 July 2022 – More info here

The Official Open Access Journal of the ECTS

20% discount on Article Publishing Charge (APC) for ECTS members

August 2021 Article Selection

Axial mechanical loading to ex vivo mouse long bone regulates endochondral ossification and endosteal mineralization through activation of the BMP-Smad pathway during postnatal growth. Download PDF
A novel case of neonatal severe hyperparathyroidism successfully treated with a type II calcimimetic drug Download PDF

We all need a nice vacation…

A recent webinar on bone marrow fat imaging. By Katharina Jähn-Rickert

About every 4 weeks, the ECTS Webinar Series on Bone, Muscle & Beyond features an EACCME®-accredited educational lecture by leaders in the field of bone research. The webinar topics include a great variety in basic and clinical research aiming to attract a broad audience to view-in and participate in the discussion after each webinar.

One of those recently held webinars was entitled “Bone marrow fat imaging: technical basics and clinical applications” and was presented by Dr. Xiaojuan Li, who is the Director of the Program for Advanced Musculoskeletal Imaging at the Lerner Research Institute in Cleveland, Ohio, USA and leads an interdisciplinary team focusing on advanced imaging and image processing techniques for several musculoskeletal diseases, including osteoporosis. The webinar held on the 15th of July was moderated by the chair of the ECTS Academy Dr. Annegreet Vlug. With the topic of bone marrow fat imaging, Dr. Li has been at the forefront to quantitative imaging.

We invite you to listen to the recordings of past webinars in the member area of the ECTS website. Stay tuned for more ECTS webinars and we hope to welcome you to the next webinar held by Dr. Christa Maes on skeletal stem and progenitor cells of the osteoblast lineage on the 19th of August.

Vitamin D status in Hawaii – What can we learn? By Petar Milovanovic

Vitamin D is known as “sunshine vitamin,” and exposure to sunshine is recommended to stimulate vitamin D production in the skin. Thus, it is interesting to examine vitamin D status in populations living in tropical climates with abundant sunshine. In this context, there is a recent study on 25(OH)D levels in older adults in Hawaii, reporting that more than a third of the older population is “deficient or insufficient” in vitamin D, despite living in one of the areas with abundant sunshine.

We asked Prof. Roger Bouillon from Catholic University of Leuven, a leading expert in vitamin D, to comment on these apparently counterintuitive findings: “The Hawaii study on vitamin D status conveys a few important messages.

News from the world: FGF-23 as a risk factor for contrast-associated acute kidney injury. By Cristiana Cipriani

Fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF23) is a hormone whose primary function is the regulation of phosphate homeostasis. Increase in FGF23 levels is observed in association with the decline of renal function in both acute and chronic conditions. As such, FGF23 is a biomarker of acute kidney injury, a major health issue whose timely diagnosis is of utmost clinical significance.

Contrast-associated acute kidney injury may occur after diagnostic and interventional procedures using iodinated contrast media, such as coronary angiography. Huang et al. recently proposed the assessment of serum FGF23 levels in the evaluation of risk for contrast-associated acute kidney injury in patients undergoing coronary angiography.

Announcements and Events

Society’s life:

Be part of ECTS in 2021: become member of a dynamic community in the musculoskeletal field and take advantage from a wide range of benefits. – Join or renew your membership now – View the membership benefit
Let us know if you would like to be actively involved in ECTS activities and you may be called to be part in one of our committees or action groups. Become an ECTS member here and complete an online form here
Get Ready: On 1st September we will open the 2022 applications for ECTS Academy and for our Fellowship programme. Check eligibility criteria and application process on ECTS website.

Education and Events:

Webinar Skeletal Stem and Progenitor cells for the Osteoblast Lineage: Origin, Regulation and Functioning, 19 August 2021, 4-5pm CEST. Join speaker Christa Maes here.
ECTS-GEMSTONE Digital Masterclass: 24 – 27 August 2021, last chance to register here
ECTS 2021 Clinical Training Course on Metabolic Bone Diseases, 2-3 September – Now CME Accredited. Check the programme and register here
NEW: Webinar Series on Rare Bone Diseases! First webinar on Hereditary Hypophosphatemia to be held on 20 October. Learn more about the series and register here.
Bone, Muscle & Beyond Webinars: 2021 calendar – Check it out & register

Other Announcements and Events :

NCRI Bone Metastasis Initiative: Help them shape their bone metastasis research strategy by participating in a short survey – open until 16 August 2021
9th Seoul International Congress of Endocrinology and Metabolism in conjunction with the 40th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Korean Endocrine Society (SICEM 2021), 28-30 October 2021. Abstract submission deadline 9 September 2021. Check the programme and submit your abstract here.
1st Athens Foot and Ankle Arthroscopy Symposium, 25 – 26 September 2021. More info here.
ESA-SRB-ANZBMS 2021 Annual Scientific Meetings, 21-24 November 2021. Abstract submission deadline 13 August 2021. Check the programme and submit your abstract here.
14th International Conference on Osteogenesis Imperfecta, Sheffield, UK, 30 August – 2 September 2022
ICCBH Bone School, Dublin, Ireland, 29 June – 1 July 2022 – More info here
10th International Conference on Children’s Bone Health, Dublin, Ireland, 2 -5 July 2022 – More info here

The Official Open Access Journal of the ECTS

20% discount on Article Publishing Charge (APC) for ECTS members

August 2021 Article Selection

Axial mechanical loading to ex vivo mouse long bone regulates endochondral ossification and endosteal mineralization through activation of the BMP-Smad pathway during postnatal growth. Download PDF
A novel case of neonatal severe hyperparathyroidism successfully treated with a type II calcimimetic drug Download PDF

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