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Characterization of the major parathyroid hormone target cell in the endosteal metaphysis of rat long bones.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  2080716     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The majority of in vivo competitive binding of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in the endosteal metaphysis of rat long bones was recently shown to be localized in the intertrabecular tissue to a cell that is distinct from a differentiated osteoblast. In the present report we have further characterized this cell, termed a parathyroid hormone target (PT) cell, by light and electron microscopy using radioautography and histochemical techniques. These studies demonstrate that the PT cell is a mononuclear cell with a large cell body located at times between clusters of differentiated osteoblasts, as well as in other regions of the intertrabecular tissue. Its long cytoplasmic processes extend from the bone matrix through the intertrabecular region toward vascular structures, interdigitating with various cells of the endosteum. A distinctive tubular structure originating in the Golgi system and often associated with long mitochondria and glycogen particles extends throughout the cytoplasmic processes of the PT cell. Based on its capacity to incorporate [3H]thymidine, the PT cell appears to divide rather slowly. The identification of occasional hybrid cells with ultrastructural features of both the PT cell and the differentiated osteoblast and the presence of histochemical evidence for alkaline phosphatase activity suggest that the PT cell is of the osteoblast lineage. These studies therefore morphologically define a major osseous target cell for PTH that, although of the osteoblast lineage, is not a differentiated osteoblast and provide in vivo evidence that characteristics of the "osteoblast phenotype" are not restricted to a sole osseous cell type.
Authors:
M F Rouleau; J Mitchell; D Goltzman
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research     Volume:  5     ISSN:  0884-0431     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Bone Miner. Res.     Publication Date:  1990 Oct 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1991-04-26     Completed Date:  1991-04-26     Revised Date:  2006-11-15    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8610640     Medline TA:  J Bone Miner Res     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1043-53     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Calcium Research Laboratory, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
Autoradiography
Binding, Competitive / physiology
Bone and Bones / cytology,  metabolism*,  ultrastructure
Cell Division / physiology
Male
Monocytes / metabolism,  ultrastructure
Parathyroid Hormone / metabolism*
Protein Binding
Rats
Rats, Inbred Strains
Thymidine / metabolism
Tritium / diagnostic use
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Parathyroid Hormone; 10028-17-8/Tritium; 50-89-5/Thymidine

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