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Extracellular NO signalling from a mechanically stimulated osteocyte.

Abstract：

:Bone remodelling is a dynamic process that requires the coordinated interaction of osteocytes, osteoblasts, and osteoclasts, collaborating in basic multicellular units (BMUs). Communication between these cells can be by extracellular soluble molecules as well as directly propagating intercellular signalling molecules. Key to the understanding of bone remodelling is osteocyte mechanosensing and chemical signalling to the surrounding cells, since osteocytes are believed to be the mechanosensors of bone, responding to mechanical stresses. Nitric oxide (NO) is an important parameter to study osteocyte activation following mechanical loading. It is a small short-lived molecule, which makes its real-time, quantitative monitoring difficult. However, recently we demonstrated that DAR-4M AM chromophore can be used for real-time quantitative monitoring of intracellular NO production in individual cells following mechanical loading. Here we studied if a single mechanically stimulated osteocyte communicates with, and thus activates its surrounding cells via extracellular soluble factors. We monitored quantitatively intracellular NO production in the stimulated osteocyte and in its surrounding osteocytes, which were not interconnected. Mechanical stimulation by microneedle of a single-MLO-Y4 osteocyte-like cell upregulated the average intracellular NO production by 94% in the stimulated cell, and by 31-150% in the surrounding osteocytes. In conclusion, a single osteocyte can disseminate a mechanical stimulus to its surrounding osteocytes via extracellular soluble signalling factors. This reinforces the putative mechanosensory role of osteocytes, and demonstrates a possible mechanism by which a single mechanically stimulated osteocyte can communicate with other cells in a BMU, which might help to better understand the intricacies of intercellular interactions in BMUs and thus bone remodelling.

journal_name

J Biomech

journal_title

Journal of biomechanics

authors

Vatsa A,Smit TH,Klein-Nulend J

doi

10.1016/j.jbiomech.2007.02.015

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-01-01 00:00:00

pages

S89-95

eissn

0021-9290

issn

1873-2380

pii

S0021-9290(07)00082-6

journal_volume

40 Suppl 1

pub_type

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Extracellular NO signalling from a mechanically stimulated osteocyte.