Bone Abstracts

Purpose: PK-VF study, being conducted in 2007–2008 and 2012–2013, was aimed to investigate the prevalence and 5-year incidence of vertebral fractures (VFs) in postmenopausal women aged 50 years or older in Beijing, China.Methods: In the 2007–2008 survey, we randomly selected a community-based population of 1825 postmenopausal women, of whom 952 women also participated in the 2012–2013 survey. Adopting the same sampling strategies as 2...

Purpose: The aim of this 5-year prospective study was to investigate the association between type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and incident osteoporotic fracture (IOF) in Chinese postmenopausal women aged 50 years or older.Methods: We included 826 subjects, participating in both the baseline (2007–2008) and follow-up (2012–2013) studies. Based on the diagnosis of T2DM, subjects were first individualized into Non-T2DM and T2DM groups, which were t...

Objectives: Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a complex three-dimensional structural deformity of the spine and its etiology remains unknown. Girls with AIS have taller stature, longer arm span, lower BMI, and generalized osteopenia. Leptin has been postulated as one of the etiologic factors of AIS because of its important physiological functions in neuro-osseous development affecting skeletal growth, bone metabolism, energy expenditure and body composition. Previous st...

Thalassemia is a chronic anemia associate with high rates of osteoporosis. To determine how erythropoiesis leads to bone loss in thalassemia, we used the th3/+ thalassemia mouse to study the role of erythropoietin (EPO) and hematopoietic progenitors (HP), since they are both increased in thalassemia.Methods: Bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) cultures and MSC cocultures with various HP from wild type (wt) and th3/+ mice were diff...

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Members of the Rho family including small GTPase Cdc42 have been shown to play multiple roles in cell regulation, including regulation of cytoskeletal organization, cell migration, proliferation, and apoptosis. However, their tissue-specific roles in vivo, especially in limb bud mesenchyme, remain largely unknown. Herein, we report that conditional deletion of Cdc42 in AER dose not change the limb development, however, knockout of Cdc42 in mesenchymal stem cells of li...

Objective: We aim to investigate gender similarities and differences in femoral neck (FN) structure of elderly population by bone investigational tookit (BIT) of quantitative computed tomography (QCT).Material and methods: This cross-sectional study was part of China Action on Spine and Hip Status study, including 207 males aged 55–87 years and 400 females aged 55–96 years. QCT scans were performed in the hip for the subjects, and we used BIT s...

Background: In the National Osteoporosis Guide 2014 all the patients are first recommended adequate calcium and vitamin D intake. For additional treatment US FDA approves the use of medications within seven different drug groups, but no magnesium. We have therefore studied the beneficial effect of Mg added to a Ca/vitamin D regime.Study: Fifty healthy women aged above 70 years recruited from elderly center were randomized into a Mg supplementation group ...

Receptor activity modifying proteins (RAMPs 1, 2 and 3) are a class of important accessory proteins that interact and regulate several G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) activity by finely modulating ligand interaction and in some cases trafficking receptors to cell surface.Predominant roles of RAMPs include ligand selectivity in receptors for Calcitonin (CT) family of peptides that comprise calcitonin, calcitonin gene related peptide, amylin and Adrenome...

The literature has suggested that bone mineral content is modulated by muscle mass and activity. We investigated the relationship between DXA assessed total body bone mineral content, total body lean mass, appendicular lean mass and obesity (a possible marker of inactivity) in a population of 73 boys between the age of 7 and 19 using a Norland XR-46 system.Regression analysis shows that in these growing boys there is a strong positive relationship betwee...