Gender-specific changes in bone turnover and skeletal architecture in igfbp-2-null mice.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2008
Keywords
Aorta, Body-Composition, Bone-Density, Bone-Remodeling, Bone-and-Bones, Cells-Cultured, Female, Femur, Glucose, Insulin-Like-Growth-Factor-Binding-Protein-2, Insulin-Like-Growth-Factor-Binding-Proteins, Insulin-Like-Growth-Factor-I, Liver, Male, Mice-Inbred-C57BL, Mice-Knockout, Osteocalcin, PTEN-Phosphohydrolase
First Page
2051
Last Page
2061
JAX Source
Endocrinology 2008 May; 149(5):2051-61.
Abstract
IGF-binding protein-2 (IGFBP-2) is a 36-kDa protein that binds to the IGFs with high affinity. To determine its role in bone turnover, we compared Igfbp2(-/-) mice with Igfbp2(+/+) colony controls. Igfbp2(-/-) males had shorter femurs and were heavier than controls but were not insulin resistant. Serum IGF-I levels in Igfbp2(-/-) mice were 10% higher than Igfbp2(+/+) controls at 8 wk of age; in males, this was accompanied by a 3-fold increase in hepatic Igfbp3 and Igfbp5 mRNA transcripts compared with Igfbp2(+/+) controls. The skeletal phenotype of the Igfbp2(-/-) mice was gender and compartment specific; Igfbp2(-/-) females had increased cortical thickness with a greater periosteal circumference compared with controls, whereas male Igfbp2(-/-) males had reduced cortical bone area and a 20% reduction in the trabecular bone volume fraction due to thinner trabeculae than Igfbp2(+/+) controls. Serum osteocalcin levels were reduced by nearly 40% in Igfbp2(-/-) males, and in vitro, both CFU-ALP(+) preosteoblasts, and tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase-positive osteoclasts were significantly less abundant than in Igfbp2(+/+) male mice. Histomorphometry confirmed fewer osteoblasts and osteoclasts per bone perimeter and reduced bone formation in the Igfbp2(-/-) males. Lysates from both osteoblasts and osteoclasts in the Igfbp2(-/-) males had phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN) levels that were significantly higher than Igfbp2(+/+) controls and were suppressed by addition of exogenous IGFBP-2. In summary, there are gender- and compartment-specific changes in Igfbp2(-/-) mice. IGFBP-2 may regulate bone turnover in both an IGF-I-dependent and -independent manner.
Recommended Citation
DeMambro VE,
Clemmons DR,
Horton LG,
Bouxsein ML,
Wood TL,
Beamer WG,
Canalis E,
Rosen CJ.
Gender-specific changes in bone turnover and skeletal architecture in igfbp-2-null mice. Endocrinology 2008 May; 149(5):2051-61.