Bone Abstracts

Roundabout receptors are crucial regulators of vessels and axons growth during development. A comparative transcriptomic study between the MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell line and its osteotropic subpopulation, MDA-B02 cells, has shown an overexpression of ROBO4 receptor. Interestingly, a high ROBO4 expression in primary tumour from patients with breast cancer correlates with poor prognosis and increased risk of bone metastasis relapse. Inoculation of ROBO4 depleted cells in the...

Interleukin-34 (IL-34) is a newly discovered cytokine which regulates, like macrophage-colony stimulating factor (M-CSF), the differentiation/activation of the myeloid lineage. IL-34 and M-CSF are homodimers known to bind to the M-CSF receptor (M-CSFR) in a competitive manner. In this system, IL-34 can substitute for the M-CSF to induce osteoclastic differentiation. The aim of the present work was to study the functional relationships of these cytokines on cells expressing the...

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate and compare the preferences of patients and health care professionals for osteoporotic drug treatment.Materials and methods: A discrete choice experiment was conducted among patients and health care professionals (general physicians, rheumatologists, and geriatricians) in Belgium. Participants were asked to choose between two hypothetical unlabelled drug treatments (and an opt-out option) that vary in several attri...