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ArticleBone reports2018

Effect of osteoporosis treatment agents on the cortical bone osteocyte microenvironment in adult estrogen-deficient, osteopenic rats.

Amber Rath Stern, Xiaomei Yao, Yong Wang, Amanuel Berhe, Mark Dallas, Mark L Johnson, Wei Yao, Donald B Kimmel, Nancy E Lane

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Article in Bone reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Amber Rath SternEngineering Systems Inc., 3310 Green Park Circle, Charlotte, NC 28217, United States.
Xiaomei YaoUniversity of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Dentistry, 650 E 25th St, Kansas City, MO 64108, United States.
Yong WangUniversity of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Dentistry, 650 E 25th St, Kansas City, MO 64108, United States.
Amanuel BerheUniversity of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Dentistry, 650 E 25th St, Kansas City, MO 64108, United States.
Mark DallasUniversity of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Dentistry, 650 E 25th St, Kansas City, MO 64108, United States.
Mark L JohnsonUniversity of Missouri - Kansas City, School of Dentistry, 650 E 25th St, Kansas City, MO 64108, United States.
Wei YaoMusculoskeletal Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, United States.
Donald B KimmelDepartment of Physiological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, United States.
Nancy E LaneMusculoskeletal Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, United States.
University of Missouri–Kansas City · USUniversity of California Davis Medical Center · USEngineering Systems (United States) · USUniversity of Florida · US

Funding

Transgenic and Mechanical Loading CoreP01AG039355 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY · PI BONEWALD, LYNDA F · 2012 to 2024
$19.3M
3D IN VIVO MORPHOMETRY OF TRABECULAR MICROSTRUCTURER01AR043052 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO · PI LANE, NANCY E · 1995 to 2014
$5.0M
Midcareer Investigator Award Patient-Oriented ResearchK24AR048841 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO · PI LANE, NANCY E · 2002 to 2013
$1.4M
NIAMS NIH HHS K24 AR048841NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR043052NIA NIH HHS P01 AG039355
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Though osteoporosis is a significant cause of disability worldwide, treatment with pharmacologic agents decreases risk of fragility fracture. Though these treatments act through the bone remodeling system to improve bone mass, it is unclear if they alter the response of bone to mechanical loading at the level of the osteocyte. This pre-clinical study determined the relationship between microstructural bone tissue properties and osteocyte lacunar size and density to strain around osteocytes with standard osteoporosis treatment or sequential therapies. Six-month-old female ovariectomized (OVX) Sprague-Dawley rats were cycled through various sequences of pharmacological treatments [alendronate (Aln), raloxifene (Ral) and human parathyroid hormone-1,34 (PTH)] for three month intervals, over nine months. Linear nanoindentation mapping was used to determine Young's modulus in perilacunar and bone matrix regions around cortical bone osteocyte lacunae. Measurements of lacunar diameter and density were completed. Treatment-related differences in Young's modulus in the perilacunar and bone matrix regions were not observed. We confirmed previous data that showed that the bone matrix region was stiffer than the perilacunar matrix region. Whole bone material properties were correlated to perilacunar matrix stiffness. Finite element models predicted a range of mechanical strain amplification factors estimated at the osteocyte across treatment groups. In summary, though the perilacunar matrix near cortical osteocyte lacuna is not as stiff as bone matrix further away, osteoporosis treatment agents do not affect the stiffness of bone tissue near osteocyte lacunae.

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AlendronateFinite element modelLacunaNanoindentationPTH(1-34)RaloxifeneSequential treatment

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PMID29955630
PMCPMC6020081
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