Bone pain is a major symptom of many skeletal disorders. Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is a genetic disease with mono or polyostotic skeletal phenotype due to the post-zygotic occurrence of the causative Gsα mutation. Bone pain in FD often associates with skeletal deformities and fractures or nerve impingement by the pathological tissue. However, even in the absence of complications, FD patients often complain of a chronic pain that does not correlate with their disease burden. Multiple hypotheses have been made to explain this pain. However, its pathogenetic mechanisms remain, as yet, largely unexplored. In this study, we first demonstrate that the FD mouse model EF1α-GsαR201C develops behavioral impairments and altered response to nociceptive stimuli that, as in FD patients, do not correlate with their skeletal disease burden, thus providing a reliable model to study bone pain in FD. Then, we show that in EF1α-GsαR201C mice, the overall pattern of skeletal innervation is preserved and that within FD lesions, sensory fibers are variably and focally distributed, mainly at perivascular sites. Finally, we provide the first analysis of a series of human FD bone biopsies showing that, within the lesional tissue, sensory nerve fibers are few despite the rich vascular network and appear to be well-organized. These data show that, albeit sensory nerve fibers are found within FD lesions, bone pain in humans and functional impairment in mice are not associated to pathological sensory nerve sprouting or formation of neuromas in the Gsα-mutated skeleton.
Bone pain in fibrous dysplasia does not rely on aberrant sensory nerve sprouting or neuroma formation.
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作者:Palmisano Biagio, Tavanti Chiara, Farinacci Giorgia, Gosti Giorgio, Leonetti Marco, Donsante Samantha, Giannicola Giuseppe, Appelman-Dijkstra Natasha, Corsi Alessandro, Ippolito Ernesto, Riminucci Mara
期刊: | Journal of Bone and Mineral Research | 影响因子: | 5.900 |
时间: | 2025 | 起止号: | 2025 Jul 28; 40(8):999-1014 |
doi: | 10.1093/jbmr/zjaf066 |
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