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1Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Japan.
Abstract:
A human osteoblastic cell line (SV-HFO) established in our laboratory expresses osteoblastic markers, including mineralization in vitro, in response to differentiation-inducing agents such as dexamethasone. In this study, we examined the effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) on the mineralization of SV-HFO cells and show that TGF-beta 1 inhibited the mineralization of the cells via down regulation of tetranectin and alkaline phosphatase without influencing other osteoblastic markers. To examine precisely the effects of TGF-beta 1 on the process of mineralization, we tentatively divided the whole process of mineralization into four phases: induced ALP activity (days 0-5), maximal ALP activity (days 5-10), early mineralization (days 10-15), and progressive mineralization (days 15-20). These inhibitory effects of TGF-beta 1 on the expression of tetranectin and alkaline phosphatase, like that on mineralization, were observed only when TGF-beta 1 was applied in the early phase of the process of mineralization. On the other hand, the other osteoblastic markers were not influenced by treatment with TGF-beta 1. These results suggest that TGF-beta 1 may inhibit mineralization of osteoblasts by the downregulation of tetranectin and alkaline phosphatase expression in the early phase. Thus, TGF-beta 1 has phase-dependent effects on a human osteoblastic cell line during the process of mineralization.
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