Posttraumatic elbow contractures: targeting neuroinflammatory fibrogenic mechanisms

MJ Monument, DA Hart, PT Salo, KA Hildebrand… - Journal of Orthopaedic …, 2013 - Elsevier
Posttraumatic elbow stiffness remains a common and challenging clinical problem. In the
setting of a congruent articular surface, the joint capsule is regarded as the major motion-…

[PDF][PDF] Modeling alveolar soft part sarcomagenesis in the mouse: a role for lactate in the tumor microenvironment

…, K Straessler, K Smith-Fry, JF Zhu, MJ Monument… - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS), a deadly soft tissue malignancy with a predilection for
adolescents and young adults, associates consistently with t(X;17) translocations that generate …

The mast cell stabilizer ketotifen reduces joint capsule fibrosis in a rabbit model of post-traumatic joint contractures

MJ Monument, DA Hart, AD Befus, PT Salo… - Inflammation …, 2012 - Springer
Objectives Using a rabbit model of post-traumatic joint contractures, we investigated
whether treatment with a mast cell stabilizer after joint injury would lessen the molecular …

The mast cell stabilizer ketotifen fumarate lessens contracture severity and myofibroblast hyperplasia: a study of a rabbit model of posttraumatic joint contractures

MJ Monument, DA Hart, AD Befus, PT Salo, M Zhang… - JBJS, 2010 - journals.lww.com
Background: The propensity of joints to become stiff after trauma is widely appreciated, and
the joint capsule is commonly recognized as the major motion-limiting anatomical structure. …

Neuroinflammatory mechanisms of connective tissue fibrosis: targeting neurogenic and mast cell contributions

MJ Monument, DA Hart, PT Salo, AD Befus… - Advances in wound …, 2015 - liebertpub.com
Significance: The pathogenesis of fibrogenic wound and connective tissue healing is complex
and incompletely understood. Common observations across a vast array of human and …

EWS/FLI-responsive GGAA microsatellites exhibit polymorphic differences between European and African populations

R Beck, MJ Monument, WS Watkins, R Smith… - Cancer genetics, 2012 - Elsevier
The genetics of Ewing sarcoma development remain obscure. The incidence of Ewing sarcoma
is ten-fold less in Africans as compared to Europeans, irrespective of geographic location…

What are the indications and survivorship of tumor endoprosthetic reconstructions for patients with extremity metastatic bone disease?

…, LE Wessel, SKT Puloski, MJ Monument… - Journal of Surgical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Objectives Given advances in therapies, endoprosthetic reconstruction (EPR)
in metastatic bone disease (MBD) may be increasingly indicated. The objectives were to …

Tumoral TP53 and/or CDKN2A alterations are not reliable prognostic biomarkers in patients with localized Ewing sarcoma: A report from the Children's Oncology …

DM Lerman, MJ Monument, E McIlvaine… - Pediatric blood & …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background A growing collection of retrospective studies have suggested that TP53 mutations
and/or CDKN2A deletions have prognostic significance in Ewing sarcoma. We sought to …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical and Biochemical Function of Polymorphic NR0B1 GGAA-Microsatellites in Ewing Sarcoma: A Report from the Children's Oncology Group

MJ Monument, KM Johnson, E McIlvaine, L Abegglen… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background The genetics involved in Ewing sarcoma susceptibility and prognosis are poorly
understood. EWS/FLI and related EWS/ETS chimeras upregulate numerous gene targets …

The impact of chromosomal translocation locus and fusion oncogene coding sequence in synovial sarcomagenesis

…, M Xie, M Haldar, H Jin, JF Zhu, MJ Monument… - Oncogene, 2016 - nature.com
Synovial sarcomas are aggressive soft-tissue malignancies that express chromosomal
translocation-generated fusion genes, SS18-SSX1 or SS18-SSX2 in most cases. Here, we report …