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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 229, Issue 5, Pages 640-650Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.24487
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- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-MEST) [2011-0016548, 2010-0005836]
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2010-0005836, 2011-0016548] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Sclerostin decreases bone mass by antagonizing the Wnt signaling pathway. We examined whether obesity-induced bone loss is associated with the expression of sclerostin. Five-week-old male mice were assigned to one of two groups (n=10 each) and fed either a control diet (10% kcal from fat; CON) or a high-fat diet (60% kcal from fat; HF) for 12weeks. Thex final body weight and whole body fat mass of the HF mice were higher than those of the CON mice. The distal femur cancellous bone mineral density and bone formation rate was lower in HF mice than in CON mice. The percent erosion surface was higher in the HF mice than the CON mice. The serum levels and femoral osteocytic protein expression levels of tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-) were significantly higher in HF mice than in CON mice. Sclerostin mRNA levels and osteocytic sclerostin protein levels in femoral cortex were also higher in HF mice than in CON mice. Sclerostin expression in MLO-Y4 osteocytes increased with TNF- treatment, and TNF--induced sclerostin expression was blocked by the inhibition of NF-B activation. Chromatin immunoprecipitation and a luciferase reporter assay demonstrated that NF-B directly binds to the NF-B binding elements on the mouse sost promoter and stimulates sclerostin expression. These results support a model in which, in the context of obesity or other inflammatory diseases that increase the production of TNF-, TNF- upregulates the expression of sclerostin through NF-B signaling pathway, thus contributing to bone loss. J. Cell. Physiol. 229: 640-650, 2014. (c) 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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