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ReviewJournal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research2013

Advances in osteoclast biology reveal potential new drug targets and new roles for osteoclasts.

Brendan F Boyce

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Review in Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers.

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72citing papers in PubMed
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

72 citing papers in PubMed, 148 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Integrative single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq identifies transcriptional and epigenetic blueprint guiding osteoclastogenic trajectory.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2025
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  6. Revolutionizing bone healing: the role of 3D models.Cell regeneration (London, England) · 2025
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  20. Regulation of osteoclast-mediated bone resorption by microRNA.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2022
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12 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brendan F BoyceDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA. Brendan_Boyce@urmc.rochester.edu
University of Rochester Medical Center · US

Funding

Studies on the fate of the OsteoclastR01AR043510 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR SAN ANT · PI BOYCE, BRENDAN F · 1995 to 2025
$8.4M
NIAMS NIH HHS AR43510‐17NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR043510
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Osteoclasts are multinucleated myeloid lineage cells formed in response to macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) and receptor activator of NF-κB ligand (RANKL) by fusion of bone marrow-derived precursors that circulate in the blood and are attracted to sites of bone resorption in response to factors, such as sphingosine-1 phosphate signaling. Major advances in understanding of the molecular mechanisms regulating osteoclast functions have been made in the past 20 years, mainly from mouse and human genetic studies. These have revealed that osteoclasts express and respond to proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines. Some of these cytokines activate NF-κB and nuclear factor of activated T cells, cytoplasmic 1 (NFATc1) signaling to induce osteoclast formation and activity and also regulate communication with neighboring cells through signaling proteins, including ephrins and semaphorins. Osteoclasts also positively and negatively regulate immune responses and osteoblastic bone formation. These advances have led to development of new inhibitors of bone resorption that are in clinical use or in clinical trials; and more should follow, based on these advances. This article reviews current understanding of how bone resorption is regulated both positively and negatively in normal and pathologic states.

Indexed as

Molecular Targeted TherapyAnimalsBone RemodelingBone ResorptionHumansOsteoclastsOsteogenesis

Identifiers

PMID23436579
PMCPMC3613781
OpenAlexW1971384336

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