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MOLECULAR THERAPY
卷 3, 期 2, 页码 197-205出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1006/mthe.2001.0245
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osteoprotegerin; OPG; adenovirus; gene therapy; estrogen deficiency; ovariectomy; disease model; mouse
Osteoprotegerin (OPG) regulates bone resorption by inhibiting osteoclast formation, function, and survival. The current studies employed a mouse ovariectomy (OVX) model of estrogen deficiency to investigate gene therapy with OPG as a means of preventing osteoporosis. Young adult females injected with a recombinant adenoviral (Ad) vector carrying cDNA of either full-length OPG or a fusion protein combining the hOPG ligand-binding domain with the human immunoglobulin constant domain (Ad-hOPG-Fc) developed serum OPG concentrations exceeding the threshold needed for efficacy. However, elevated circulating OPG levels were sustained for up to 18 months only in mice given Ad-hOPG-Fc. Administration of Ad-hOPG-Fc titers between 10(7) and 10(9) pfu yielded dose-dependent increases in serum OPG. Mice subjected to OVX or sham surgery followed by immediate treatment with Ad-hOPG-Fc had significantly more bone volume with reduced osteoclast numbers in axial and appendicular bones after 4 weeks. In contrast, animals given OVX and either a control vector or vehicle had significantly less bone than did comparably treated sham-operated mice. This study demonstrates that a single adenoviral gene transfer can produce persistent high-level OPG expression and shows that gene therapy to provide sustained delivery of OPG may prove useful in treating osteoporosis.
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