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Despite its acute inhibitory effect on bone formation in vitro, PTH has been shown to have an anabolic effect on bone in vivo and to stimulate cell proliferation in osteoblastic cell lines and organ cultures. We have examined the effects of PTH on cells derived from human trabecular bone and compared these effects with those on human skin fibroblasts. Human bone cells have the capacity to synthesize type I collagen and osteocalcin, and to respond to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 with an increase in the synthesis of osteocalcin and alkaline phosphatase. PTH stimulated adenylate cyclase activity at both low and high cell density. However, the same concentrations of hormone stimulated the proliferation of these cells only when they were cultured at a high cell density. The effect of PTH was bone cell specific in that no proliferative effect of PTH was detected in cultures of human skin fibroblasts obtained from the same donor and cultured under the same conditions. The effect of PTH on DNA synthesis by human bone cells may be important in the generation of a long term anabolic response to PTH.

Original publication

DOI

10.1210/endo-118-6-2445

Type

Journal article

Journal

Endocrinology

Publication Date

06/1986

Volume

118

Pages

2445 - 2449

Keywords

Bone and Bones, Cell Count, Cell Division, Cells, Cultured, Cyclic AMP, DNA, Fibroblasts, Humans, Parathyroid Hormone