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ReviewSeminars in cell & developmental biology2016

The calcium-sensing receptor as a mediator of inflammation.

Gordon L Klein, Shawn M Castro, Roberto P Garofalo

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Review in Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gordon L KleinDepartments of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA; Shriners Burns Hospital, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA. Electronic address: gordonklein@ymail.com.
Shawn M CastroPediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
Roberto P GarofaloPediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA; Sealy Center for Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

Project 9: The role of androgen/corticosteroid in fat, muscle and glucose metabolism of burn victimsP50GM060338 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BR GALVESTON · PI SZABO, CSABA · 2000 to 2017
$24.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM060338NIGMS NIH HHS P50GM60338
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The teleologic link between increased production of pro-inflammatory cytokines resulting from a systemic inflammatory response to a burn injury and consequent stimulation of bone resorption is unclear. While it is known that cytokines can stimulate osteocytic and osteoblastic production of the ligand of the receptor activator of NFκB, or RANKL, it is not certain why this occurs. It was therefore hypothesized that the subsequent osteoclastic bone resorption liberates calcium from the bone matrix and somehow affects the inflammatory response. In this paper we show how the cytokine-mediated inflammatory response following severe burn injury in children results in simultaneous increase in bone resorption and up-regulation of the parathyroid calcium-sensing receptor. The acute bone resorption leads to release of calcium from the bone matrix with consequent calcium accumulation in the circulation. The up-regulation of the parathyroid calcium-sensing receptor suppresses the release of parathyroid hormone resulting in a lowering of blood calcium concentration. The simultaneous occurrences of these processes could regulate blood calcium concentration and if calcium concentration affects the inflammatory response, then the calcium-sensing receptor could, at the very least, modulate the inflammatory response by adjusting the blood calcium concentration. We describe in vitro studies in which we demonstrated that peripheral blood mononuclear cells in culture produce the chemokines MIP-1α and RANTES in proportion to the medium calcium concentration and they produce the chemokine MCP-1 in quantities inversely related to medium calcium concentration. CD14+monocytes in culture will also produce MIP-1α in direct relationship to medium calcium concentration but the correlation coefficient is markedly reduced compared to that with peripheral blood mononuclear cells. These monocytes, which possess the calcium-sensing receptor, do not produce MCP-1 in either direct or inverse relationship to medium calcium concentration. Therefore, it is possible that other peripheral blood mononuclear cells are primarily responsible for the production of chemokines in relation to calcium concentration but these cells have not yet been defined.

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AnimalsBone ResorptionBurnsCalciumCytokinesHumansInflammationLeukocytes, MononuclearReceptors, Calcium-SensingCalciumCytokinesReceptors, Calcium-SensingBurnsCalciumCalcium-sensing receptor (CaSR)ChemokinesInflammationPeripheral blood mononuclear cells

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PMID26303192
PMCPMC4761504
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