ArticleBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2024
TGF-β3 Restrains Osteoclastic Resorption Through Autophagy.
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- Surface microstructures of tricalcium phosphate regulate the autophagy of osteoclasts through the MAPK/ERK signaling pathway.Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine · 2026Article
- Potential Ferroptosis-Related Genes and Immune Infiltration in Form-Deprivation Myopia: An Integrative Bioinformatics and in vitro Validation Study.International journal of general medicine · 2026Article
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Abstract
While TGF-β3 promoted defect healing in a primate baboon skull defect model and patients, it remains unclear whether TGF-β3 affects the formation of osteoclasts and bone resorption between osteogenesis and osteolysis. Analysis of the full transcriptome of hPDLSCs (human periodontal ligament stem cells) revealed that the expression of RANKL was significantly up-regulated after TGF-β3 treatment during osteogenesis, which suggests its involvement in clock-controlled autophagy in bone metabolism. TRAP staining and bone resorption lacunae were used to assess the osteoclasts formed from RANKL-induced differentiated BMMs. During osteoclast differentiation, the characteristics of autophagy regulated by TGF-β3 were observed in BMMs through MDC staining, transmission electron microscopy, and LC3 immunofluorescence. The expression of related genes and proteins were detected on the sixth day in mCherry-EGFP-LC3B lentivirus-transfected BMMs using RT-qPCR and WB. Finally, a trans-well co-culture system was used to evaluate the effects of osteogenic differentiated hPDLSCs treated with TGF-β3 on the osteoclastic differentiation of BMMs. The results showed 10 ng/mL of TGF-β3 significantly suppressed osteoclastic differentiation and bone resorption in BMMs (
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