Sarah M Greising, PhD, assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Skeletal Muscle Plasticity and Regeneration Laboratory (SMPRL), published an editorial titled, “Cross-talk with skeletal muscle and its nexus with regenerative rehabilitation,” in Connective Tissue Research with colleague Vincent Wang, PhD, of Virginia Tech. Both Drs. Greising and Wang serve as associate editors for Connective Tissue Research and together guest edited a special issue of the journal.

Their editorial focuses on broad and collective research highlighting cellular, molecular, and/or structure-function assessment of the cross-talk of skeletal muscle with tendon or bone. Specifically, studies included within the specific issue highlight the potential tissue cross-talk which occurs in skeletal pathologies and identify how cross-talk can be targeted for treatments or interventions. This special issue of Connective Tissue Research will kick off 2021 in the print version of the journal.