The condition , called heterotopic ossification , occurs when an area of the body is signaled to grow bone rather than other tissues .
这种情况，被称为异位骨化，是由于身体的某块区域发出长骨头的信号，而不是生长其他组织。
Though there 's no way to prevent or know when a person will develop heterotopic ossification , scientists now have a starting point to develop drugs that could help treat the problem .
This pattern of european ossification and american consolidation is holding true for banks . Doubtless the difficulties of meshing combinations like bank of america / merrill lynch and wells fargo / wachovia during a downturn are being underestimated .
Despite potential treatment options in the future , researchers will need to find more about how sp works in a larger number of patients and whether it can be realistically controlled in people with life-long forms of heterotopic ossification .
In a study in the journal of cellular biochemistry , researchers at northwestern university 's feinberg school of medicine found high levels of a neuropeptide called " substance p , " or sp , in both fop patients and individuals who developed heterotopic ossification .
