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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-5
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-6-30
pubmed:abstractText
Long standing disturbances of Vitamin D-metabolism as well as null-mutant animals for 25-hydroxy-1alpha-hydroxylase results in disorganised growth plates. Cultured chondrocytes were shown to be target for the hydroxylated Vitamin D-metabolites 1alpha,25(OH)(2)D(3) and 24,25(OH)(2)D(3). Because studies on production of these metabolites were inconclusive in in vitro systems, the expression of the Vitamin D-system was examined in rat growth plate chondrocytes in vitro as well as ex vivo. Gene expression for 25-hydroxy-1alpha-hydroxylase, 25-hydroxy-24-hydroxylase as well as Vitamin D-receptor and collagen II and X were analysed on mRNA level by RT-PCR and quantitative real-time PCR, on protein level by western blotting and by immunohistochemistry in isolated growth plate chondrocytes or intact growth plates. Compared to UMR or CaCo(2) cells and renal homogenates cultured growth plate chondrocytes expressed low levels of 25-hydroxy-1alpha-hydroxylase mRNA and 25-hydroxy-24-hydroxylase mRNA. The expression of both was modulated by 25(OH)D(3), but 1alpha,25(OH)(2)D(3) affected only 25-hydroxy-24-hydroxylase. These data were confirmed by Western blotting. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated predominant staining for 25-hydroxy-1alpha-hydroxylase in chondrocyte nodules and cells embedded in matrix in vitro. Ex vivo, 25-hydroxy-1alpha-hydroxylase was detected predominantly in late proliferative and hypertrophic zone of the growth plate. In conclusion, growth plate chondrocytes express the key components for a paracrine/autocrine Vitamin D-system.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0960-0760
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
89-90
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
143-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Rat growth plate chondrocytes express low levels of 25-hydroxy-1alpha-hydroxylase.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 150, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article