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ArticlePloS one2017

SIRT1 is a positive regulator of in vivo bone mass and a therapeutic target for osteoporosis.

Kayvan Zainabadi, Cassie J Liu, Alison L M Caldwell, Leonard Guarente

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Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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68citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

68 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 117 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kayvan ZainabadiGlenn Center for the Science of Aging, Department of Biology, Koch Institute, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3134-1783
Cassie J LiuGlenn Center for the Science of Aging, Department of Biology, Koch Institute, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Alison L M CaldwellGlenn Center for the Science of Aging, Department of Biology, Koch Institute, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Leonard GuarenteGlenn Center for the Science of Aging, Department of Biology, Koch Institute, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Overexpression or pharmacological activation of SIRT1 has been shown to extend the lifespan of mice and protect against aging-related diseases. Here we show that pharmacological activation of SIRT1 protects in two models of osteoporosis. Ovariectomized female mice and aged male mice, models for post-menopausal and aging-related osteoporosis, respectively, show significant improvements in bone mass upon treatment with SIRT1 agonist, SRT1720. Further, we find that calorie restriction (CR) results in a two-fold upregulation of sirt1 mRNA expression in bone tissue that is associated with increased bone mass in CR mice. Reciprocally, SIRT1 whole-body knockout (KO) mice, as well as osteoblast and osteoclast specific KOs, show a low bone mass phenotype; though double knockout mice (containing SIRT1 deleted in both osteoblasts and osteoclasts) do not show a more severe phenotype. Altogether, these findings provide strong evidence that SIRT1 is a positive regulator of bone mass and a promising target for the development of novel therapeutics for osteoporosis.

Indexed as

AgingAnimalsBone and BonesBone DensityBone Density Conservation AgentsCaloric RestrictionDisease Models, AnimalFemaleHeterocyclic Compounds, 4 or More RingsMaleMice, 129 StrainMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicOsteoblastsOsteoclastsBone Density Conservation AgentsHeterocyclic Compounds, 4 or More RingsRNA, MessengerSirt1 protein, mouseSirtuin 1SRT1720

Identifiers

PMID28937996
PMCPMC5609767
OpenAlexW2757874772

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