Bone Abstracts

Obesity, diabetes, and high fracture risk is linked, but the mechanism is unclear. However, impaired acute adipose tissue inflammation may be a common denominator for these conditions. Impaired adipose tissue inflammation leads to low adipogenesis, insufficient adipose expansion, and signs of diabetes.The aim of this study was to investigate if the low adipogenesis induced by impaired adipose tissue inflammation is coupled to increased osteoblastogenesis...

Estradiol (E2) signaling via estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) is important for the male skeleton as demonstrated by ERα inactivation in both mice and man. ERα mediates estrogenic effects by translocating to the nucleus and there affects gene transcription, but some effects can also be mediated via extra-nuclear actions of the receptor by, e.g., triggering cytoplasmic signaling cascades. ERα contains various domains and the role of activation functio...

Estrogens are important regulators of bone mass and exert their physiological effects on bone mainly via estrogen receptor α (ERα). Central ERα has been reported to exert an inhibitory role on bone mass. ERα is widely distributed in the brain with a high expression in the arcuate nucleus (ARC) and the ventral medial nucleus (VMN) in the hypothalamus. Here, we tested the hypothesis that ERα in hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons, located in...

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It is well established that estrogen, mainly via estrogen receptor alpha (ERα), has positive effects on bone, but estrogen is not considered as a treatment option against osteoporosis due to negative side-effects in other tissues. ERα is widely subjected to posttranslational modifications (PTMs), which can affect cellular responses to estrogen in a tissue specific manner by influencing the function of ERα and its interactions with other proteins. The in vivo...