Publications

16. Bentovim L, Amarilio R, Zelzer E.
HIF1α is a central regulator of collagen hydroxylation and secretion under hypoxia during bone development. Development. 2012 Dec;139(23):4473-83. (PDF)
   
15. Sharir A, Milgram J, Dubnov-Raz G, Zelzer E, Shahar R.
A temporary decrease in mineral density in perinatal mouse long bones. Bone. 2012 Oct 6;52(1):197-205. (PDF)
   
14. Shoham AB, Malkinson G, Krief S, Shwartz Y, Ely Y, Ferrara N, Yaniv K, Zelzer E.
S1P1 inhibits sprouting angiogenesis during vascular development. Development. 2012 Oct;139(20):3859-69. (PDF)
   
13. Shwartz Y, Farkas Z, Stern T, Aszódi A, Zelzer E.
Muscle contraction controls skeletal morphogenesis through regulation of chondrocyte convergent extension. Dev Biol. 2012 Oct 1;370(1):154-63. (PDF)
   
12. Amnon Sharir and Elazar Zelzer.Tendon Homeostasis: The Right Pull
Current Biology Vol 21 No 12 (PDF)
   
11. Amnon Sharir, Tomer Stern, Chagai Rot, Ron Shahar and Elazar Zelzer, (2011). Muscle force regulates bone shaping for optimal loadbearing capacity during embryogenesis. Development 138, 3247-3259 (2011) doi:10.1242/dev.063768. (PDF)
   
10. Ronen Schweitzer, Elazar Zelzer and Talila Volk.Connecting muscles to tendons: tendons and musculoskeletal development in flies and vertebrates. Development 137, 2807-2817 (2010) doi:10.1242/dev.047498. (PDF)
   
9. Einat Blitz, Sergey Viukov, Amnon Sharir, Yulia Shwartz, Jenna L. Galloway, Brian A. Pryce, Randy L. Johnson, Clifford J. Tabin, Ronen Schweitzer, and Elazar Zelzer, (2009). Bone Ridge Patterning during Musculoskeletal Assembly Is Mediated through SCX Regulation of Bmp4 at the Tendon-Skeleton Junction. Developmental Cell 17, 861–873, December 15, 2009 (PDF)
   
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Joy Kahn, Yulia Shwartz, Einat Blitz, Sharon Krief, Amnon Sharir, Dario. A. Breitel, Revital Rattenbach, Frederic Relaix, Pascal Maire, Ryan B. Rountree, David M. Kingsley and Elazar Zelzer, (2009). Muscle Contraction Is Necessary to Maintain Joint Progenitor Cell Fate. Developmental Cell 16, 734–743, May 19, 2009. (PDF)  
   
7. Eshkar-Oren , Viukov SV, Salameh S, Krief S, Oh CD, Akiyama H, Gerber HP, Ferrara N, Zelzer E.(2009). The forming limb skeleton serves as a signaling center for limb vasculature patterning via regulation of Vegf. Development 136, 1263-1272 (2009) doi:10.1242/dev.034199. (PDF)
   
6. Roy Amarilio1, Sergey V. Viukov1, Amnon Sharir1, Idit Eshkar-Oren1, Randall S. Johnson2 and Elazar Zelzer1. (2007) HIF1alfa regulation of Sox9 is necessary to maintain differentiation of hypoxic prechondrogenic cells during early skeletogenesis. Development 134, 3917-3928 doi:10.1242/dev.008441. (PDF)
   
5. Zelzer, E., Mamluk, R., Ferrara, N., Johnson, R. S., Schipani, E., and Olsen, B. R. (2004). VEGFA is necessary for chondrocyte survival during bone development. Development 131, 2161-2171. (PDF)
   
4. Zelzer E and Olsen BR (2003). The genetic basis for skeletal diseases. Nature 15;423:343-348. (PDF)
   
3. Zelzer, E., McLean, W., Ng, Y.-S., Fukai, N., Reginato, A. M., Lovejoy, S., D¹Amore, P. A., and Olsen, B. (2002). Skeletal defects in VEGF (120/120) mice reveal multiple roles for VEGF in skeletogenesis. Development 129, 1893-1904. (PDF)
   
2. Zelzer, E., Glotzer, D. J., Hartmann, C., Thomas, D., Fukai, N., Shay, S., and Olsen, B. R. T. (2001). Tissue specific regulation of VEGF expression during bone development requires Cbfa1/Runx2. Mech. Dev. 106, 97-106. (PDF)
   
1. Zelzer, E., Levy, Y., Kahana, C., Shilo, B. Z., Rubinstein, M., and Cohen, B. (1998). Insulin induces transcription of target genes through the hypoxia-inducible factor HIF-1alpha/ARNT. EMBO J. 17, 5085-5094. (PDF)