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First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tokushima School of Medicine, Tokushima, Japan
Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Daisuke Inoue, M.D., First Department of Internal Medicine, University of Tokushima School of Medicine, 318-15 Kuramoto-cho, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan. E-mail: inoued{at}clin.med.tokushima-u.ac.jp
Osteoprotegerin (OPG) is a recently identified member of the tumor
necrosis factor (TNF) receptor superfamily that regulates bone mass
through an inhibitory action on osteoclast differentiation and
function. To determine its potential roles of OPG in pathological
changes in bone metabolism caused by estrogen deficiency, we
investigated effects of estrogen on OPG expression by a mouse stromal
cell line, ST-2, in vitro. Treatment of ST-2 cells with
17ß-E2 resulted in up-regulation of OPG expression at
both the messenger RNA and protein levels. The effect was time and dose
dependent and steroid specific. The stimulatory action of
17ß-E2 on OPG expression appeared to be mediated by the
estrogen receptor-
(ER
) subtype because stable overexpression of
ER
, but not of ERß, enhanced the OPG induction by
17ß-E2. Moreover, estrogen withdrawal after 5-day
pretreatment, mimicking the event occurring in vivo at
menopause, dramatically diminished the expression of OPG. These
findings suggest that down-regulation of OPG after estrogen withdrawal
contributes to the enhanced osteoclastic bone resorption and bone loss
after menopause by enhancing RANK ligand-RANK system that lies
downstream of a large number of bone-resorbing cytokines.
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