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JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 124-131Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.091001
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SEX STEROID RECEPTORS; ADAPTIVE RESPONSE OF BONE TO MECHANICAL LOADING; BONE FORMATION; SOST/SCLEROSTIN; PULSATING FLUID FLOW
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- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven [OT/05/53]
- Fund for Scientific Research Flanders, Belgium (FWO Vlaanderen) [G.0323.09]
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In female mice, estrogen receptor-alpha (ER alpha) mediates the anabolic response of bone to mechanical loading. Whether ER alpha plays a similar role in the male skeleton and to what extent androgens and androgen receptor (AR) affect this response in males remain unaddressed. Therefore, we studied the adaptive response of in vivo ulna loading in AR-ER alpha knockout (KO) mice and corresponding male and female single KO and wild-type (WT) littermates using dynamic histomorphometry and immunohistochemistry. Additionally, cultured bone cells from WT and AR KO mice were subjected to mechanical loading by pulsating fluid flow in the presence or absence of testosterone. In contrast with female mice, ER alpha inactivation in male mice had no effect on the response to loading. Interestingly, loading induced significantly more periosteal bone formation in AR KO (+ 320%) and AR-ER alpha KO mice (+256%) compared with male WT mice (+114%) and had a stronger inhibitory effect on SOST/sclerostin expression in AR KO versus WT mice. In accordance, the fluid flow-induced nitric oxide production was higher in the absence of testosterone in bone cells from WT but not AR KO mice. In conclusion, AR but not ER alpha, activation limits the osteogenic response to loading in male mice possibly via an effect on WNT signaling. (C) 2010 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
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