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Abstract
Type beta transforming growth factor (TGF-beta) activity was found in conditioned medium harvested from fetal rat and neonatal mouse calvariae by using the anchorage-independent growth of normal rat kidney fibroblasts as an indicator system. Calvariae incubated with parathyroid hormone, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3, and interleukin 1, all factors that stimulate bone resorption showed a concentration-dependent increase in TGF-beta activity in the culture medium. Increases in TGF-beta activity persisted undiminished for 48 hr after removal of these factors. The increases in TGF-beta activity from the resorbing bone cultures were relatively greater than the increases in bone resorption. Calcitonin inhibition of bone resorption correlated with a decrease in TGF-beta activity. Thus, agents that modulate bone resorption also affect TGF-beta activity in the bone culture medium. Changes in local concentrations of TGF-beta activity by osteotropic hormones may be important in the regulation of normal bone remodeling.Entities:
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Year: 1987 PMID: 3494250 PMCID: PMC304576 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.84.7.2024
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205