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Ethanol May Suppress Wnt/β-catenin Signaling on Human Bone Marrow Stroma Cells

A Preliminary Study

  • Symposium: Molecular and Surgical Advances in Osteonecrosis
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Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Abstract

Ethanol and glucocorticoids are risk factors associated with osteonecrosis. Previous reports suggest ethanol and glucocorticoids induce adipogenesis, decrease osteogenesis in bone marrow stroma cells, and produce intracellular lipid deposits resulting in death of osteocytes. The Wnt/β-catenin signal pathway is involved in the regulation of homeostasis of bone and we presume glucocorticoids and ethanol may induce osteonecrosis in humans through a similar mechanism as in rodents. We hypothesized (1) ethanol, like glucocorticoids, decreases osteogenesis and increases adipogenesis through the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in human bone marrow stromal cells; and (2) ethanol decreases intranuclear translocation of β-catenin. We found both dexamethasone and ethanol decrease the gene and protein expression of osteogenesis and increase that of adipogenesis through Wnt signaling-related genes by semiquantitative and quantitative polymerase chain reaction and Western blot. Ethanol hampered intranuclear translocation of β-catenin by immunofluorescence analysis. The data suggest the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway may be associated with ethanol-induced osteonecrosis.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Yi-Jen Chen for helping in the experimental process and Dr Chung-Hwan Chen for the preparation of the manuscript. We also thank Chihuei Wang, PhD, for help with the experiment and discussion.

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  1. Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Ching-Hua Yeh MS, Yan-Hsiung Wang PhD & Mei-Ling Ho PhD

  2. Orthopaedic Research Center, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Ching-Hua Yeh MS, Je-Ken Chang MD, Yan-Hsiung Wang PhD, Mei-Ling Ho PhD & Gwo-Jaw Wang MD

  3. Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Ching-Hua Yeh MS & Mei-Ling Ho PhD

  4. Department of Orthopaedics, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, No 100 Shi-Chuan 1st Road, San Ming District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

    Je-Ken Chang MD & Gwo-Jaw Wang MD

  5. Department of Orthopaedics, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Je-Ken Chang MD & Gwo-Jaw Wang MD

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Ching-Hua Yeh and Je-Ken Chang contributed equally to this manuscript.

One or more of the authors (GJW, JKC, MLH) have received funding from the National Health Research Institute of Taiwan (NHRI-EX94-9316EP and NHRI-EX96-9615EP), the Hip Society, Technology Development Program for Academia in Taiwan (96-EC-17-A-17-S1-041), and Zimmer, Inc.

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Yeh, CH., Chang, JK., Wang, YH. et al. Ethanol May Suppress Wnt/β-catenin Signaling on Human Bone Marrow Stroma Cells. Clin Orthop Relat Res 466, 1047–1053 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-008-0171-1

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