Recent publications
Lecka-Czernik B. Diabetes, bone and glucose-lowering agents: basic biology. Diabetologia 60:1170-1179, 2017. PMID:28434032
Stechschulte LA, Lecka-Czernik B. Reciprocal Regulation of PPARγ and RUNX2 Activities in Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Fine Balance between p38 MAPK and Protein Phosphatase 5. Current Molecular Biology Reports 3:102-113. 2017
Lecka-Czernik B, Stechschulte LA, Czernik PJ, Sherman SB, Huang S, Krings A. Marrow Adipose Tissue: Skeletal Location, Sexual Dimorphism, and Response to Sex Steroid Deficiency. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2017 Aug 4;8:188. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2017.00188. eCollection 2017. PMID:28824548
Gaihre B, Lecka-Czernik B, Jayasuriya AC. Injectable nanosilica-chitosan microparticles for bone regeneration applications. J Biomater Appl. 32(6):813-825, 2018.
Lecka-Czernik B, Baroi S, Stechschulte LA, Chougule AS. Marrow fat – a new target to treat bone diseases? Current Osteoporosis Reports 16:123-129, 2018. PMID:29460176
Lecka-Czernik B, Rosen CJ. Bone Marrow Adiposity – Special Edition. Bone 118:1, 2019. PMID:30473145
Chougule A, Kolli V, Baroi S, Ebraheim N, Czernik PJ, Loh YP, Lecka-Czernik B. Non-enzymatic and Trophic Activities of Carboxypeptidase E Regulate Bone Mass and Bioenergetics of Skeletal Stem Cells in Mice. J Bone Miner Res Plus. 12;4(9):e10392, 2020. doi: 10.1002/jbm4.10392. PMID: 32995694
Chakraborty S, Mell B, Nie Y, Cheng X, Galla S, Czernik P, Lecka-Czernik B, Joe B. Single Nucleotide Polymorphism of Spp2 Confers Sex-Specific Effects on Blood Pressure and Bone Health. Hypertension. 2020 Oct;76(4):e31-e33. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120.15880. Epub 2020 Aug 24. PMID: 32829659
Baroi S, Czernik PJ, Chougule A, Griffin PR, Lecka-Czernik B. PPARG in osteocytes controls sclerostin expression, bone mass, marrow adiposity and mediates TZD-induced bone loss. Bone. 2021 Jun;147:115913. doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2021.115913. Epub 2021 Mar 16.
Scheller EL, McGee-Lawrence ME, Lecka-Czernik B. Report From the 6th International Meeting on Bone Marrow Adiposity (BMA2020). Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2021 Jul 16;12:712088. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2021.712088. eCollection 2021.PMID: 34335478
Czernik PJ, Golonka RM, Chakraborty S, Yeoh BS, Abokor A, Saha P, Yeo JY, Mell B, Cheng X, Baroi S, Tian Y, Patterson AD, Joe B, Vijay-Kumar M, Lecka-Czernik B. Reconstitution of the host holobiont in germ-free born male rats acutely increases bone growth and affects marrow cellular content. Physiol Genomics. 2021 Oct 29. doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00017.2021. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34714176