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What are the normal types of bone?

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Lamellar - cortical/compact and cancellous/trabecular/ spongy

Woven

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When is woven bone seen? (3)

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In children
Healing from a fracture
Pathology

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How much of total bone mass of an adult is compact bone?

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80%

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How does the surface area of trabecular bone compare to compact bone?

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10x greater

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Describe the organisation of woven bone.

Why is this beneficial? What is the disadvantage?

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Random collagen organisation

Forms quickly but it is mechanically weak

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What are the three broad components of bone matrix?

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35-40% organic
60% inorganic
5% water

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What makes up the organic part of bone matrix? (3)

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Type 1 collagen (triple helix = 10nm)
Proteoglycans
Growth factors/cytokines/osteoid

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What is the purpose of the collagen?

What about the proteoglycans?

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Tensile strength

Compressive strength

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What makes up the organic part of bone matrix?

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Calcium hydroxyapatite (Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2) (crystal = 500nm)

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What cells are found in bone? (4)

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Osteoprogenitor cell
Osteoblast
Osteocyte
Osteoclast

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What are the reasons for remodelling?

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1) renews bone before deterioration

2) redistributes bone matrix along mechanical stress lines.

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When bone is remodelled, why is it initially trabecular bone?

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3-10 times quicker than cortical bone
Larger surface area
Responds to stresses on bone quicker

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What cells sense mechanical stress of bone?

What does the death of these cells signal?

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Osteocytes

Remodelling

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What secretes sclerostin (glycoprotein) and what does this do?

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Osteocytes
Inhibits bone formation by osteoblasts.
PTH and mechanical stress

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What inhibits sclerostin? (2)

What increases it?

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Inhibited by PTH and mechanical stress

Increased by calcitonin

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What is the antibody to sclerostin currently in clinical trials called? What does it do?

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Romosozumab

Increase bone density

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What is EphrinB2?
Where is EphrinB4 receptor expressed?
What does this do?

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Ligand expressed by osteoclasts
On osteoblasts
Generates bidirectional anti-osteoclastogenic and pro-osteoblastogenic signals. Inhibits osteoclast precursor differentiation and enhances osteoblast differentation.

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What increased ephrinB2 expression?

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PTH

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What are the processes of bone remodelling? (6)

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  • Osteoclast attaches to bone forming leak proof seal
  • Protein-digesting enzymes breakdown collagen fibres
  • Acid dissolves bone minerals
  • Bone proteins and minerals (mainly Ca2+) cross osteoclast to exit into interstitial fluid.
  • Osteoblasts fill lacuna with osteoid.
  • Osteoid is mineralised approx. 1 week later
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Outline the process of bone remodelling. How long doest the process take?

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The osteocytes stimulate the osteoclast precursors to differentiate into osteoclasts. These are activated and then they resorb the bone. The osteoblasts then fill these lacuna with osteoid, which is then mineralised.
3-4 months

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What cells FORM bone?

What cells RESORB bone?

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Osteoblasts

Osteoclasts

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How much of the calcium in the body is in the skeleton?

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99.9%

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What does the maintenance of normal serum calcium depends on? (3)

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Intestinal absorption
Renal excretion
Skeletal mobilisation

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What does the serum calcium level have to be regulated between?

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2.2 - 2.6mmol L (8.5-10.5 mg/dL)

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What is the recommended daily intake of calcium?
500-1300mg
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How much calcium do the kidneys excrete a day?
200mg
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How much calcium is excreted in the stools a day?
600-800mg
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How much calcium is absorbed from the gut a day? | How much calcium is secreted into the gut?
400mg | 150mg
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What is the normal plasma concentration of phosphate?
0.8 -1.5mmol/L
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What is most important in regulating phosphate metabolism?
PTH
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What does low plasma calcium stimulate?
Parathryroid hormone secretion
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What does PTH promote? (4)
Ca2+ uptake from kidney and intestines Ca2+ reabsorption from bone (increases number and activity of osteoclasts) PO4 excretion from kidney Synthesis of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25 (OH)2 vitamin D3)
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How does PTH stimulate osteoclasts?
Osteoblasts have receptor for PTH, osteoblasts produce RANKL, osteoclasts and their precursors have RANK receptor.
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What does vitamin D3 increase?
Ca2+ absorption from the gut
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What is RANKL? | What cells produce it?
Receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand | Osteoblasts and stromal cells
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What is M-CSF? | What cells produce it?
Macrophage colony-stimulating factor | Osteoblasts and stromal cells
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What is OPG?
Osteoprotegrin (decoy receptor for RANKL)
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What induces RANKL? (10)
``` Vitamin D PTH TNF-alpha Glucocorticoids IL-1, IL-11 T4/T3 PGE2 Histamine IGF-1 Low gravity ```
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What inhibits RANKL? (2)
Oestrogen | TGF-beta
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What is the effect of RANKL and M-CSF?
Osteoclast formation
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When there is a high plasma Ca2+ level, what is released (and where from)? What plasma level does this occur at?
Calcitonin (from thyroid) | When serum Ca2+ >2.25mmol/L
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What does calcitonin do? (4)
Inhibits bone resorption by inhibiting osteoclast differentiation and activity Increases Ca2+ excretion from kidney Inhibits Ca2+ absorption by intestines Stimulates calcium deposition in bones
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How can vitamin D be obtained? (2)
Diet | UV light on precursors in skin
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What is the normal daily requirement of vitamin D?
400 IU/day
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Where is 1,25(OH)2 vitamin D3 made?
In the kidney
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What is the effect of vitamin D3?
Stimulates Ca2+ absorption from gut | Stimulates bone resorption in same way as PTH
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Where is the vitamin D receptor present? | What does it affect?
In osteoblasts | Gene expression and differentiation
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What is 1,25 (OH)2 vitamin D3 involved in?
Preparing ECM for mineralisation via production of pro-collagen type 1 and production of alkaline phosphatase matrix vesicles
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What other factors affect bone metabolism? (3)
Oestrogen Glucocorticoids Progesterone
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What does oestrogen do? (2)
Increases Ca2+ absorption in gut | Decreases re-absorption (inhibit osteoclasts) in bone
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What do glucocorticoids do? (2) | What is an effect of prolonged corticosteroid treatment?
Decrease Ca2+ absorption in gut Increased re-absorption/decreased formation in bone Osteoporosis
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What might progesterone be used to treat osteoporosis?
Adding progesterone cream to osteoporosis therapy increased bone density by around 10% in 1st 6 months to rate of 3-5% annually (stabilises at levels of 35 year old). May be key to reversing osteoporosis.
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What stimulates osteoblasts? (9)
Oestrogen, progesterone, testosterone PTH, T4, vitamin D IGF, TGF-beta, PDGF
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What inhibits osteoblasts? (1)
Cortisol
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What stimulates osteoclasts? (8)
PTH, T4, vitamin D | IL-6, IL-1, IL-11, RANKL, M-CSF
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What inhibits osteoclasts? (8)
OPG, oestrogen, progesterone, prostaglandins, cortisol, IL-4, IL-18, IFN-gamma
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What is the net effect of PTH?
Increased serum calcium and decreased serum phosphate
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What is the net effect of 1,25-D3?
Increased serum phosphate
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What is the net effect of calcitonin?
Decreased serum calcium
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What inhibits the production of vitamin D3? (3)
Decreased PTH Elevated serum calcium Elevated serum phosphate
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What inhibits the production of PTH?
Elevated serum calcium | Elevated 1,25(OH)2D in kidney

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