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Yongmei Wang Department of Medicine, Endocrine Unit, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94117-1080, USA
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Takeshi Sakata Department of Medicine, Endocrine Unit, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94117-1080, USA
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Hashem Z Elalieh Department of Medicine, Endocrine Unit, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94117-1080, USA
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Scott J Munson Department of Medicine, Endocrine Unit, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94117-1080, USA
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Andrew Burghardt Department of Medicine, Endocrine Unit, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94117-1080, USA
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Sharmila Majumdar Department of Medicine, Endocrine Unit, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94117-1080, USA
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Bernard P Halloran Department of Medicine, Endocrine Unit, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94117-1080, USA
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Daniel D Bikle Department of Medicine, Endocrine Unit, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco, California 94117-1080, USA
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Parathyroid hormone (PTH) exerts both catabolic and anabolic actions on bone. Studies on the skeletal effects of PTH have seldom considered the effects of gender. Our study was designed to determine whether the response of mouse bone to PTH differed according to sex. As a first step, we analyzed gender differences with respect to bone mass and structural properties of 4 month old PTH treated (80 μg/kg per day for 2 weeks) male and female CD-1 mice. PTH significantly increased fat free weight/body weight, periosteal bone formation rate, mineral apposition rate, and endosteal single labeling surface, while significantly decreasing medullary area in male mice compared with vehicle treated controls, but induced no significant changes in female mice. We then analyzed the gender differences in bone marrow stromal cells (BMSC) isolated from 4 month old male and female CD-1 mice following treatment with PTH (80 μg/kg per day for 2 weeks). PTH significantly increased the osteogenic colony number and the alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity (ALP/cell) by day 14 in cultures of BMSCs from male and female mice. PTH also increased the mRNA level of receptor activator of nuclear factor κB ligand in the bone tissue (marrow removed) of both females and males. However, PTH increased the mRNA levels of IGF-I and IGF-IR only in the bones of male mice. Our results indicate that on balance a 2-weeks course of PTH is anabolic on cortical bone in this mouse strain. These effects are more evident in the male mouse. These differences between male and female mice may reflect the greater response to PTH of IGF-I and IGF-IR gene expression in males enhancing the anabolic effect on cortical bone.

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