Table 1

Tissue wound injury: a common link between two chronic diseases: OSTEOATHEROITIS and OSTEOARTHRITIS.

T
Tissue wound healing: a recapitulation of embryologic genetic memory
I
Injury – Inflammation: OSTEOATHEROITIS – OSTEOARTHRITIS
G
Granulation tissue formation (angiogenesis)
E
Endothelial cell activation, proliferation, migration: ANGIOGENESIS
R
Remodeling of the AVW: initially positive outward remodeling and over time a chronically negative inward arterial remodeling (see Scar contracture).
Repair.
Restructure.
Resolution: results, only if the chronic injurious stimuli and sensitizers are removed from the endothelial, intimal, and medial layers of the arterial vessel wall.
The above 4 (R's): activate pleuripotent mesenchymal stem-cell pericytes and VSMCs to produce bone morphogenic proteins, which are also activated by (I): Injury and Inflammation with resulting inflammatory cytokines such as TNF alpha, IL-6 and decreased IL-10.
S
Scar: contracture and negative remodeling resulting in stenosis.
AVW stiffness even without ossification.

Hayden et al. Cardiovascular Diabetology 2005 4:4   doi:10.1186/1475-2840-4-4