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Administration of colony stimulating factor-1 to toothless osteopetrotic rats normalizes osteoblast, but not osteoclast, gene expression.

Authors: Wisner-Lynch, L A  Shalhoub, V  Marks, S C 
Citation: Wisner-Lynch LA, etal., Bone. 1995 Jun;16(6):611-8. doi: 10.1016/8756-3282(95)00114-s.
RGD ID: 151665777
Pubmed: PMID:7669437   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1016/8756-3282(95)00114-s   (Journal Full-text)

The toothless (tl) osteopetrotic mutation in the rat is characterized by generalized skeletal sclerosis, a severe reduction in the numbers of osteoclasts, monocytes, and macrophages, and absence of tooth eruption. Studies examining gene expression in bone-derived cells of tl rats and their normal littermates have shown that genes related to osteoblast function are aberrantly expressed in tl rats compared to normal littemates. We have previously shown that exogenous administration of colony stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) to tl rats results in a dramatic reduction of the skeletal sclerosis and significant increases in the number of osteoclasts. Thus, we examined the effects of CSF-1 on osteoblast and osteoclast gene expression in tl rats as demonstrated by Northern blot analysis. While osteoblast-related gene expression as reflected by mRNA levels of alkaline phosphatase, osteocalcin, osteopontin, and type I collagen was normalized, osteoclast-related gene expression, as reflected by mRNA levels of carbonic anhydrase II and tartrate-resistant adenosine triphosphatase, remained significantly lower in CSF-1-treated tl rats compared to untreated normal littermates. Since previous studies have not demonstrated the CSF-1 receptor on osteoblasts, these results suggest that osteoblast abnormalities in tl rats are an effect of the osteopetrotic condition rather than the cause of the disease.



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Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Acp5  (acid phosphatase 5, tartrate resistant)
Alpl  (alkaline phosphatase, biomineralization associated)
Bglap  (bone gamma-carboxyglutamate protein)
Spp1  (secreted phosphoprotein 1)


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