Enhanced Immunoreceptor Tyrosine-based Activation Motif Signaling is Related to Pathological Bone Resorption During Critical Illness

Autor: A. Wauters, Jan Gunst, E Van Herck, Helen C. Owen, S. Van Cromphaut, G Van den Berghe, I. Vanhees, Thomas Janssens
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Hormone and Metabolic Research
ISSN: 1439-4286
0018-5043
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1351290
Popis: Prolonged critically ill patients present with distinct alterations in calcium and bone metabolism. Circulating bone formation markers are reduced and bone resorption markers are substantially elevated, indicating an uncoupling between osteoclast and osteoblast activity, possibly resulting in pronounced bone loss, impaired traumatic or surgical fracture healing, and osteoporosis. In addition, we have previously shown that increased circulating osteoclast precursors in critically ill patients result in increased osteoclastogenesis in vitro, possibly through FcγRIII signaling. In the current study, we investigated the effects of sustained critical illness on bone metabolism at the tissue level in a standardized rabbit model of prolonged (7 days), burn injury-induced critical illness. This in vivo model showed a reduction in serum ionized calcium and osteocalcin levels, as is seen in humans. Trabecular area, bone mineral content, and -density were decreased in sick rabbits [by 43% (p
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