ESPE Abstracts

Expansion of the skull vault to accommodate the growing brain is driven primarily by growth at cranial sutures. These are fibrous joints between the flat bones of the skull that translate growth pressure from the brain into a balanced proliferation and differentiation of cells of the osteoblast lineage. This process is sensitive to environmental and genetic insults and premature fusion of one or more sutures, termed craniosynostosis is a common (~1 in 2000), and serious cranio...