title: Elevation of alkaline phosphatase activity induced by parathyroid hormone in osteoblast-like cells from the spinal hyperostotic mouse TWY (twy/twy).
abstract: We have examined the alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity of primary calvaria-derived osteoblast-like cells from the twy (tip-toe walking Yoshimura) and normal ICR control mouse. The twy mouse displays elevated osseous formation particularly in the spine, and the pathophysiological features resemble that of human ankylosing spinal hyperostosis. In the proliferative stage of cultured bone cells, parathyroid hormone (PTH) stimulation induced the elevation of AP activity of both twy and ICR mouse-derived cells. When they reached confluence, the AP activity of ICR mouse-derived cells ceased to increase with PTH stimulation. The twy mouse-derived cells, however, continued to respond to PTH, with the enzyme activity increasing even in the confluent, stationary stage. PTH stimulation also increased the intracellular cAMP content of twy mouse-derived cells but it did not influence that of ICR mouse-derived cells in the stationary stage. Moreover, stimulation with dibutyryl cAMP, but not with phorbol myristate acetate, increased the AP activity of both twy and ICR-derived bone cells irrespective of culture conditions, either in the proliferative or in the confluent stage. These data suggest that the protein kinase A-mediated pathway plays a pivotal role in bone cells with PTH stimulation, and that the uninhibited AP activity observed in twy mouse-derived bone cells might be due to some deviating process between the PTH ligand/receptor interaction and cAMP generation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Japan.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Terakado
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tagawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goto
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Moriya
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fujimura
mesh_terms: D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D002455:Cell Division; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D000242:Cyclic AMP / Q000378:metabolism; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005260:Female; D004057:Hyperostosis, Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008813:Mice, Inbred ICR; D008817:Mice, Mutant Strains; D010006:Osteoblasts / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000473:pathology; D010281:Parathyroid Hormone / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D012886:Skull / Q000201:enzymology / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D010281:Parathyroid Hormone; D000242:Cyclic AMP; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase