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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Volume 285, Issue 3, Pages E608-E613Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00501.2002
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parathyroid hormone; prostaglandin E-2; nitric oxide synthase
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Parathyroid hormone (PTH) and mechanical stress both stimulate bone formation but have opposite effects on bone resorption. PTH increased loading-induced bone formation in a rat model, suggesting that there is an interaction of these stimuli, possibly at the cellular level. To investigate whether PTH can modulate mechanotransduction by bone cells, we examined the effect of 10(-9) M human PTH-(1-34) on fluid flow-induced prostaglandin E-2 (PGE(2)) and nitric oxide (NO) production by primary mouse osteoblastic cells in vitro. Mechanical stress applied by means of a pulsating fluid flow (PFF; 0.6 +/- 0.3 Pa at 5 Hz) stimulated both NO and PGE(2) production twofold. In the absence of stress, PTH also caused a twofold increase in PGE(2) production, but NO release was not affected and remained low. Simultaneous application of PFF and PTH nullified the stimulating effect of PFF on NO production, whereas PGE(2) production was again stimulated only twofold. Treatment with PTH alone reduced NO synthase (NOS) enzyme activity to undetectable levels. We speculate that PTH prevents stress-induced NO production via the inhibition of NOS, which will also inhibit the NO-mediated upregulation of PGE(2) by stress, leaving only the NO-independent PGE(2) upregulation by PTH. These results suggest that mechanical loading and PTH interact at the level of mechanotransduction.
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