Bone metastases articles within Nature

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• Article | 13 September 2023

  A vertebral skeletal stem cell lineage driving metastasis

  Vertebral osteoblasts in mouse and human are formed from a precursor skeletal stem cell population that is distinct from long bone skeletal stem cells in function, location and transcriptional programme.

  • Jun Sun
  • , Lingling Hu
  •  & Matthew B. Greenblatt

• Letter | 27 May 2015

  RETRACTED ARTICLE: The hypoxic cancer secretome induces pre-metastatic bone lesions through lysyl oxidase

  Metastasis to the bone of certain breast cancers can be driven by the enzyme lysyl oxidase (LOX) produced by primary tumour cells.

  • Thomas R. Cox
  • , Robin M. H. Rumney
  •  & Janine T. Erler