Journal
CURRENT OSTEOPOROSIS REPORTS
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 436-443Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11914-021-00693-9
Keywords
Osteocytes; Mechanotransduction; Diminishing returns; Negative feedback; Mechanosensitivity
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- NIAMS NIH HHS [R01 AR076378] Funding Source: Medline
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Adaptation to mechanical loading is crucial for bone mass maintenance and prevention of age-related bone loss. However, prolonged loading can lead to diminishing returns as the anabolic response saturates quickly. Osteocytes play a key role in responding to skeletal loading and facilitating anabolic response, but their sensitivity can be limited by underlying mechanisms.
Adaptation to mechanical loading is critical to maintaining bone mass and offers therapeutic potential to preventing age-related bone loss and osteoporosis. However, increasing the duration of loading is met with diminishing returns as the anabolic response quickly becomes saturated. As a result, the anabolic response to daily activities and repetitive bouts of loading is limited by the underlying mechanisms that desensitize and render bone unresponsive at the cellular level. Osteocytes are the primary cells that respond to skeletal loading and facilitate the overall anabolic response. Although many of osteocytes' signaling mechanisms activated in response to loading are considered anabolic in nature, several of them can also render osteocytes insensitive to further stimuli and thereby creating a negative feedback loop that limits osteocytes' overall response. The purpose of this review is to examine the potential mechanisms that may contribute to the loss of mechanosensitivity. In particular, we examined the inactivation/desensitization of ion channels and signaling molecules along with the potential role of endocytosis and cytoskeletal reorganization. The significance in defining the negative feedback loop is the potential to identify unique targets for enabling osteocytes to maintain their sensitivity. In doing so, we can begin to cultivate new strategies that capitalize on the anabolic nature of daily activities that repeatedly load the skeleton.
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