The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Morilak, David A
Funded by
NIH-NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS & STROKE
The Integrated Graduate Program in Neuroscience at UTHSCSA provides training in a range of neuroscientific research areas and approaches, from molecular, cellular, and neurochemical to systems, behavioral and clinical neuroscience.
The UT Health San Antonio, with missions of teaching, research and healing, is one of the country’s leading health sciences universities.
Principal Investigator(s)
Jiang, Jean X
Funded by
NIH-ARTHRITIS/MUSCULOSKEL/SKIN DISEASES
Collaborating Institutions
University of Incarnate Word
Mechanical loading experienced by skeletal tissues plays an important role in bone formation and remodeling.Osteocytes are the most abundant bone cell type and the major mechanosensory cells of the bone. Theyorchestrate bone remodeling from their location throughout bone matrix by coordinating osteoblastic formationand osteoclastic resorption. Osteocytes are connected to neighboring osteocytes and other bone cells via gapjunction channels and to extracellular environments via hemichannels. Both types of channels are formed byconnexin (Cx) 43.
