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Mito-mice? and mitochondrial DNA mutator mice as models of human osteoporosis caused not by aging but by hyperparathyroidism.

ABSTRACT: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutator mice showing accelerated accumulation of mtDNA with somatic mutations are potentially useful models of human aging, whereas mito-mice? showing accelerated accumulation of mtDNA with a deletion mutation (?mtDNA) are potentially useful models of mitochondrial diseases but not human aging, even though both models express an age-associated decrease in mitochondrial respiration. Because osteoporosis is the only premature aging phenotype observed in mtDNA mutator mice with the C57BL/6J nuclear genetic background, our previous study precisely examined its expression spectra and reported that both mtDNA mutator mice and mito-mice?, but not aged mice, developed decreased cortical bone thickness. Moreover, decreased cortical bone thickness is usually not seen in aged humans but is commonly seen in the patients with hyperparathyroidism caused by oversecretion of parathyroid hormone (PTH). In the present study, we showed higher concentrations of blood PTH in mtDNA mutator mice and mito-mice? than in aged mice. We also found that both models developed decreased mitochondrial respiration in the duodenum or renal tubules, which would lead to hypocalcemia, oversecretion of PTH, and ultimately osteoporosis. Thus, mtDNA mutator mice and mito-mice? may be useful models of human osteoporosis caused not by aging but by hyperparathyroidism.

SUBMITTER: Mito T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6219885 | biostudies-other | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Mito-mice∆ and mitochondrial DNA mutator mice as models of human osteoporosis caused not by aging but by hyperparathyroidism.

Mito Takayuki T Tani Haruna H Suzuki Michiko M Ishikawa Kaori K Nakada Kazuto K Hayashi Jun-Ichi JI

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Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutator mice showing accelerated accumulation of mtDNA with somatic mutations are potentially useful models of human aging, whereas mito-miceΔ showing accelerated accumulation of mtDNA with a deletion mutation (ΔmtDNA) are potentially useful models of mitochondrial diseases but not human aging, even though both models express an age-associated decrease in mitochondrial respiration. Because osteoporosis is the only premature aging phenotype observed in mtDNA mutator mice ...[more]

PMID: 29973435

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Mito-mice? and mitochondrial DNA mutator mice as models of human osteoporosis caused not by aging but by hyperparathyroidism.

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Mito-mice∆ and mitochondrial DNA mutator mice as models of human osteoporosis caused not by aging but by hyperparathyroidism.

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