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Yuan R, Ma S, Zhu X, Li J, Liang Y, Liu T, Zhu Y, Zhang B, Tan S, Guo H, Guan S, Ao P, Zhou G. Core level regulatory network of osteoblast as molecular mechanism for osteoporosis and treatment. Oncotarget 2016; 7:3692-701. [PMID: 26783964 PMCID: PMC4826162 DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.6923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2015] [Accepted: 01/04/2016] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
Abstract
To develop and evaluate the long-term prophylactic treatment for chronic diseases such as osteoporosis requires a clear view of mechanism at the molecular and systems level. While molecular signaling pathway studies for osteoporosis are extensive, a unifying mechanism is missing. In this work, we provide experimental and systems-biology evidences that a tightly connected top-level regulatory network may exist, which governs the normal and osteoporotic phenotypes of osteoblast. Specifically, we constructed a hub-like interaction network from well-documented cross-talks among estrogens, glucocorticoids, retinoic acids, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor, vitamin D receptor and calcium-signaling pathways. The network was verified with transmission electron microscopy and gene expression profiling for bone tissues of ovariectomized (OVX) rats before and after strontium gluconate (GluSr) treatment. Based on both the network structure and the experimental data, the dynamical modeling predicts calcium and glucocorticoids signaling pathways as targets for GluSr treatment. Modeling results further reveal that in the context of missing estrogen signaling, the GluSr treated state may be an outcome that is closest to the healthy state.
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- Ruoshi Yuan
- Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- The Center for Anti-Ageing and Regenerative Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- The Center for Anti-Ageing and Regenerative Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- The Center for Anti-Ageing and Regenerative Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- The Center for Anti-Ageing and Regenerative Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- The Center for Anti-Ageing and Regenerative Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- The Center for Anti-Ageing and Regenerative Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- The Center for Anti-Ageing and Regenerative Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
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- Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine, Ministry of Education, Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.,School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
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- The Center for Anti-Ageing and Regenerative Medicine, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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Tissue-level mechanical properties characterize mechanical behavior independently of microscopic porosity. Specifically, quasi-static nanoindentation provides measurements of modulus (stiffness) and hardness (resistance to yielding) of tissue at the length scale of the lamella, while dynamic nanoindentation assesses time-dependent behavior in the form of storage modulus (stiffness), loss modulus (dampening), and loss factor (ratio of the two). While these properties are useful in establishing how a gene, signaling pathway, or disease of interest affects bone tissue, they generally do not vary with aging after skeletal maturation or with osteoporosis. Heterogeneity in tissue-level mechanical properties or in compositional properties may contribute to fracture risk, but a consensus on whether the contribution is negative or positive has not emerged. In vivo indentation of bone tissue is now possible, and the mechanical resistance to microindentation has the potential for improving fracture risk assessment, though determinants are currently unknown.
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- Jeffry S Nyman
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1215 21st Ave. S., South Tower, Suite 4200, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA.
- Department of Veterans Affairs, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA.
- Center for Bone Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA.
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA.
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 1215 21st Ave. S., South Tower, Suite 4200, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
- Department of Veterans Affairs, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN, 37212, USA
- Center for Bone Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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Tan S, Zhang B, Zhu X, Ao P, Guo H, Yi W, Zhou GQ. Deregulation of bone forming cells in bone diseases and anabolic effects of strontium-containing agents and biomaterials. Biomed Res Int 2014; 2014:814057. [PMID: 24800251 DOI: 10.1155/2014/814057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2013] [Revised: 02/20/2014] [Accepted: 03/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Age-related bone loss and osteoporosis are associated with bone remodeling changes that are featured with decreased trabecular and periosteal bone formation relative to bone resorption. Current anticatabolic therapies focusing on the inhibition of bone resorption may not be sufficient in the prevention or reversal of age-related bone deterioration and there is a big need in promoting osteoblastogenesis and bone formation. Enhanced understanding of the network formed by key signaling pathways and molecules regulating bone forming cells in health and diseases has therefore become highly significant. The successful development of agonist/antagonist of the PTH and Wnt signaling pathways are profits of the understanding of these key pathways. As the core component of an approved antiosteoporosis agent, strontium takes its effect on osteoblasts at multilevel through multiple pathways, representing a good example in revealing and exploring anabolic mechanisms. The recognition of strontium effects on bone has led to its expected application in a variety of biomaterial scaffolds used in tissue engineering strategies aiming at bone repairing and regeneration. While summarizing the recent progress in these respects, this review also proposes the new approaches such as systems biology in order to reveal new insights in the pathology of osteoporosis as well as possible discovery of new therapies.
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