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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-6-8
pubmed:abstractText
Activation of osteoclasts and their acidification-dependent resorption of bone is thought to maintain proper serum calcium levels. Here we show that osteoclast dysfunction alone does not generally affect calcium homeostasis. Indeed, mice deficient in Src, encoding a tyrosine kinase critical for osteoclast activity, show signs of osteopetrosis, but without hypocalcemia or defects in bone mineralization. Mice deficient in Cckbr, encoding a gastrin receptor that affects acid secretion by parietal cells, have the expected defects in gastric acidification but also secondary hyperparathyroidism and osteoporosis and modest hypocalcemia. These results suggest that alterations in calcium homeostasis can be driven by defects in gastric acidification, especially given that calcium gluconate supplementation fully rescues the phenotype of the Cckbr-mutant mice. Finally, mice deficient in Tcirg1, encoding a subunit of the vacuolar proton pump specifically expressed in both osteoclasts and parietal cells, show hypocalcemia and osteopetrorickets. Although neither Src- nor Cckbr-deficient mice have this latter phenotype, the combined deficiency of both genes results in osteopetrorickets. Thus, we find that osteopetrosis and osteopetrorickets are distinct phenotypes, depending on the site or sites of defective acidification.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1546-170X
pubmed:author
pubmed-author:AmlingMichaelM, pubmed-author:BaranowskyAnkeA, pubmed-author:BarvencikFlorianF, pubmed-author:BeilF TimoFT, pubmed-author:BlaekerMichaelM, pubmed-author:DebatinKlaus-MichaelKM, pubmed-author:Del FattoreAndreaA, pubmed-author:FrattiniAnnalisaA, pubmed-author:GebauerMatthiasM, pubmed-author:HuebnerAntje KAK, pubmed-author:KornakUweU, pubmed-author:LinnTilmanT, pubmed-author:MarshallRobert PRP, pubmed-author:PerkovicSandraS, pubmed-author:PriemelMatthiasM, pubmed-author:PueschelKlausK, pubmed-author:RuegerJohannes MJM, pubmed-author:SauterGuidoG, pubmed-author:SchillingArndt FAF, pubmed-author:SchinkeThorstenT, pubmed-author:SchulzAnsgarA, pubmed-author:SeitzSebastianS, pubmed-author:SimonRonaldR, pubmed-author:StreichertThomasT, pubmed-author:TetiAnnaA, pubmed-author:VillaAnnaA, pubmed-author:ZustinJozefJ
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
15
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
674-81
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-9-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Impaired gastric acidification negatively affects calcium homeostasis and bone mass.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Trauma, Hand, and Reconstructive Surgery, Center for Biomechanics and Skeletal Biology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't