Comparison of the abilities of human parathyroid hormone(1-31)NH2 and human parathyroid hormone-related protein(1-31)NH2 to stimulate femoral trabecular bone growth in ovariectomized rats.

Whitfield, J F; Morley, P; Willick, G E; Ross, V; Langille, R; MacLean, S; Barbier, J; Isaacs, R J et al. · Calcif Tissue Int · 1997

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

N-terminal fragments of PTH and PTHrP, such as hPTH-(1-34) and hPTHrP-(1-34), are sufficiently similar with respect to amino acid sequence, location of functional domains, and higher order configuration to activate the same PTH/PTHrP receptor and the same two signal enzymes, adenylyl cyclase and phospholipase-Cbeta. Therefore, it was expected that hPTHrP-(1-31)NH2 would stimulate bone growth in ovariectomized rats as strongly as hPTH-(1-31)NH2. Like hPTH-(1-31)NH2, hPTHrP-(1-31)NH2 stimulated adenyly cyclase in ROS 17/2 osteosarcoma cells as strongly as the standard hPTH-(1-34) and like hPTH-(1-31)NH2, triggered a large drop in mean blood pressure when injected intravenously. Unlike hPTH-(1-31)NH2, however, hPTHrP-(1-31)NH2 could not stimulate trabecular growth in the distal femurs of young, sexually mature, ovariectomized rats.

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