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Tang, Quan, Kukita, Toshio, Ushijima, Yuki, Kukita, Akiko, Nagata, Kengo, Sandra, Ferry, Watanabe, Toshiyuki, Toh, Kazuko, Okuma, Yutaka, Kawasaki, Sadamichi, Rasubala, Linda, Teramachi, Junpei, Miyamoto, Ichiko, Wu, Zhou, Iijima, Tadahiko |
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Histochemistry & Cell Biology; Mar2006, Vol. 125 Issue 3, p215-225, 11p, 6 Diagrams |
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Simon extracts are vitamin K1-rich food materials extracted from the leaves of the Simon sweet potato. Although vitamin K is known to stimulate bone formation, we postulated that Simon extracts also contain unknown biological compounds having the ability to regulate bone resorption. Here we prepared the vitamin K-free fraction from the Simon extracts and investigated the ability of this fraction on the differentiation of osteoclasts. A remarkable inhibitory effect of osteoclastogenesis was observed when osteoclast precursors were treated with this fraction in rat bone marrow culture systems as well as in a pure differentiation system using murine osteoclast precursor cell line. The vitamin K-free Simon extracts markedly suppressed severe bone destruction mediated by abundant osteoclasts associated with adjuvant-induced arthritis in rats. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis revealed that the vitamin K-free Simon extracts contained three types of low molecular weight inhibitors for osteoclastogenesis; caffeic acid, chlorogenic acids and isochlorogenic acids. Among these substances, caffeic acid showed the most powerful inhibitory effects on osteoclastogenesis. Caffeic acid significantly suppressed expression of NFATc1, a key transcription factor for the induction of osteoclastogenesis. Our current study enlightened a high utility of the Simon extracts and their chemical components as effective regulators for bone resorption accompanied with inflammation and metabolic bone diseases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
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