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Bone Fusion in Normal and Pathological Development is Constrained by the Network Architecture of the Human Skull

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    Identificador: PC:2920
  • Autors:

    Guimerà, R.
    Esteve-Altava, B.
    Vallès-Català, T.
    Sales-Pardo, M.
    Rasskin-Gutman, D.
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    Autor segons l'article: Guimerà, R.; Esteve-Altava, B.; Vallès-Català, T.; Sales-Pardo, M.; Rasskin-Gutman, D.
    Departament: Enginyeria Química
    Autor/s de la URV: GUIMERA MANRIQUE, ROGER; Esteve-Altava, B.; Vallès-Català, T.; SALES PARDO, MARTA; Rasskin-Gutman, D.
    Paraules clau: Craniosynostosis
    Resum: Craniosynostosis, the premature fusion of cranial bones, affects the correct development of the skull producing morphological malformations in newborns. To assess the susceptibility of each craniofacial articulation to close prematurely, we used a network model of the skull to quantify the link reliability (an index based on stochastic block models and Bayesian inference) of each articulation. We show that, of the 93 human skull articulations at birth, the few articulations that are associated with non-syndromic craniosynostosis conditions have statistically significant lower reliability scores than the others. In a similar way, articulations that close during the normal postnatal development of the skull have also lower reliability scores than those articulations that persist through adult life. These results indicate a relationship between the architecture of the skull and the specific articulations that close during normal development as well as in pathological conditions. Our findings suggest that the topological arrangement of skull bones might act as a structural constraint, predisposing some articulations to closure, both in normal and pathological development, also affecting the long-Term evolution of the skull.
    Grup de recerca: Science and Engineering of Emergent Systems
    Àrees temàtiques: Enginyeria química Ingeniería química Chemical engineering
    Accès a la llicència d'ús: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 2045-2322
    Identificador de l'autor: 0000-0002-3597-4310; ; ; 0000-0002-8140-6525;
    Data d'alta del registre: 2017-10-20
    Volum de revista: 7
    Versió de l'article dipositat: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Enllaç font original: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-03196-9
    Programa de finançament: european; Marie Sk¿odowska-Curie grant; MC; 654155 plan; Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad de España; MINECO; MINECO-FEDERBFU2015-70927-R plan; Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad de España; MINECO; FIS2013-47532-C3-P1 plan; Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad de España; MINECO; FIS2016-78904-C3-P-1
    DOI de l'article: 10.1038/s41598-017-03196-9
    Entitat: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Any de publicació de la revista: 2017
    Pàgina inicial: 3376
    Tipus de publicació: Article Artículo Article
  • Paraules clau:

    Craniometria
    Crani--Malformacions--Tractament
    Xarxes (Matemàtica)
    Craniosynostosis
    Enginyeria química
    Ingeniería química
    Chemical engineering
    2045-2322
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