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Gabriel Pagnotti’s research bridges biomechanics, cancer biology, and musculoskeletal health, focusing on mechanical signals like low-intensity vibration to preserve bone mass in cancer models. His work shows these stimuli shift bone marrow cells toward osteogenesis, restoring bone remodeling balance. In multiple myeloma and breast cancer metastasis models, mechanical loading suppressed tumor growth and osteolytic lesions by downregulating tumor-promoting genes, reducing RANKL signaling, and enhancing protective pathways. Importantly, loading did not worsen cancer and sometimes reduced tumor spread while mitigating osteopenia. Extending this to myeloma, Pagnotti and collaborators demonstrated that mechanical interventions may counteract severe osteolytic bone loss by influencing mechanosensitive pathways, offering a promising nonpharmacological strategy to protect bone integrity and slow tumor-driven skeletal disease.

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