Bone Abstracts

Objectives: Sex hormones and mechanical overload have been regarded as main causative factors in the pathogenesis of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) osteoarthritis. However, there was no report regarding the relevance of mechanical overload on the mandibular condyle with serum estrogen level. This study aimed to investigate changes of the mandibular condyle of TMJ in ovariectomized rat under increased loading, and to evaluate the inhibitory effect of systemic administration of 1...

Introduction: Low level of estrogen has regarded as a main contributing factor of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) arthritis in young women patients. However, there is lack of evidence about the occurrence of arthritis in knee joint (KJ) related with estrogen deficiency. This study aimed to investigate the effect of estrogen deficiency on the loaded and non-loaded bone area of TMJ or KJ.Method and materials: Total of 28 SD rats were allocated into two group...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the bony change of mandibular condyle when the originally less-loaded or unloaded surface was subjected to functional loading by the newly designed animal experiment, and to evaluate whether this experiment is adequate for the animal model of condylar resorption due to mechanical loading.Methods: Twelve adult male New Zealand white rabbits were used. Unilateral oblique vertical body osteotomy (UOVBO) ...

Introduction: Estrogen therapy decreases circulating levels of sclerostin, a protein product of SOST which increase in postmenopausal women. However, the mechanisms of estrogen on the expression of SOST remain unclear. This study was hypothesized that estrogen modulates SOST expression by interfering bone morphogenic protein (BMP) signaling on the basis that BMP is an inducer of SOST in osteoblasts.Description of methods: We investigated the expression o...

Little is known about the molecular mechanisms underlying the interaction between Sclerostin (SOST) and estrogen, showing an inverse relation in clinical data. Therefore, we investigated mechanisms by which estrogen modulates Sost expression at human osteoblastic cell level in association with BMP-2 signaling, which is a potential route of SOST induction. BMP-2 significantly induced SOST expression, which is suppressed by 17β-estradiol (E2) in human mesenchymal s...