Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms24010447
Keywords
adolescent obesity; circulating extracellular vesicles; mesenand chymal stromal cells; osteogenic differentiation; physical exercise
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Excess body weight is beneficial to bone health but leads to poor bone structure. This study found that children with obesity have a higher amount of circulating extracellular vesicles, which results in adipogenic differentiation in mesenchymal stromal cells and a reduction in differentiation markers in mature osteoblasts. Regular physical exercise can partially restore the bone phenotype by decreasing the levels of circulating extracellular vesicles in obese children.
Excess body weight has been considered beneficial to bone health because of its anabolic effect on bone formation; however, this results in a poor quality bone structure. In this context, we evaluated the involvement of circulating extracellular vesicles in the impairment of the bone phenotype associated with obesity. Circulating extracellular vesicles were collected from the plasma of participants with normal weight, as well as overweight and obese participants, quantified by flow cytometry analysis and used to treat mesenchymal stromal cells and osteoblasts to assess their effect on cell differentiation and activity. Children with obesity had the highest amount of circulating extracellular vesicles compared to controls. The treatment of mesenchymal stromal cells with extracellular vesicles from obese participants led to an adipogenic differentiation in comparison to vesicles from controls. Mature osteoblasts treated with extracellular vesicles from obese participants showed a reduction in differentiation markers in comparison to controls. Children with obesity who regularly performed physical exercise had a lower circulating extracellular vesicle amount in comparison to those with a sedentary lifestyle. This pilot study demonstrates how the high amount of circulating extracellular vesicles in children with obesity affects the bone phenotype and that physical activity can partially rescue this phenotype.
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