Osteoblasts Are a New Target for Prolactin: Analysis of Bone Formation in Prolactin Receptor Knockout Mice* *This work was supported in part by grants from Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc.

Bone development is a multistep process that includes patterning of skeletal elements, commitment of hematopoietic and/or mesenchymental cells to chondrogenic and osteogenic lineages, and further differentiation into three specialized cell types: chondrocytes in cartilage and osteoblasts and osteoclasts in bone. Although PRL has a multitude of biological actions in addition to its role in the mammary gland, very little is known about its effect on bone. Mice carrying a germline null mutation for the PRL receptor gene have been produced in our laboratory and used to study the role of PRL in bone formation. In− /− embryos, we observed an alteration in bone development of calvaria. In adults, histomorphometric analysis showed that the absence of PRL receptors leads to a decrease in bone formation rate using double calcein labeling and a reduction of bone mineral density, measured by dual energy x-ray absorptiometry. In addition, serum estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, and PTH levels were analyzed. We al...

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