ArticleThe FEBS journal2020
Osteocytic miR21 deficiency improves bone strength independent of sex despite having sex divergent effects on osteocyte viability and bone turnover.
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- MicroRNAs and their Modulatory Effect on the Hallmarks of Osteosarcopenia.Current osteoporosis reports · 2024Review
- The Involvement of microRNAs in Bone Remodeling Signaling Pathways and Their Role in the Development of Osteoporosis.Biology · 2024Review
- Sex dimorphic response to osteocyte miR21 deletion in murine calvaria bone as determined by RNAseq analysis.JBMR plus · 2024Article
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- Sexing Bones: Improving Transparency of Sex Reporting to Address Bias Within Preclinical Studies.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2023Article
- miR21 deletion in osteocytes has direct and indirect effects on skeletal muscle in a sex-dimorphic manner in mice.Biology of sex differences · 2022Article
- Triggering Receptor Expressed on Myeloid Cells 2 (TREM2) R47H Variant Causes Distinct Age- and Sex-Dependent Musculoskeletal Alterations in Mice.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2022Article
- Sex-specific differences in direct osteoclasticBone reports · 2022Article
- MicroRNAs and osteocytes.Bone · 2021Review
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Abstract
Osteocytes play a critical role in mediating cell-cell communication and regulating bone homeostasis, and osteocyte apoptosis is associated with increased bone resorption. miR21, an oncogenic microRNA, regulates bone metabolism by acting directly on osteoblasts and osteoclasts, but its role in osteocytes is not clear. Here, we show that osteocytic miR21 deletion has sex-divergent effects in bone. In females, miR21 deletion reduces osteocyte viability, but suppresses bone turnover. Conversely, in males, miR21 deletion increases osteocyte viability, but stimulates bone turnover and enhances bone structure. Further, miR21 deletion differentially alters osteocyte cytokine production in the two sexes. Interestingly, despite these changes, miR21 deletion increases bone mechanical properties in both sexes, albeit to a greater extent in males. Collectively, our findings suggest that miR21 exerts both sex-divergent and sex-equivalent roles in osteocytes, regulating osteocyte viability and altering bone metabolism through paracrine actions on osteoblasts and osteoclasts differentially in males vs females, whereas, influencing bone mechanical properties independent of sex.
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