• The Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325027, P.R.China;
ZHU Sipin, Email: sipinzhu@163.com
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Bone remodeling requires an intimate cross-talk between osteoclasts and osteoblasts and is tightly coordinated with regulatory proteins that interact through complex autocrine/paracrine processes. Osteocytes, bone lining cells, osteomacs and vascular endothelial cells also regulate bone remodeling in the basic multicellular unit (BMU) via cell signaling networks of ligand-receptor complexes. In addition, through secreted and membrane-bound factors in the bone microenvironment, T and B lymphocytes mediate bone homeostasis for osteoimmunology. Osteoporosis and other bone diseases occur because multicellular communication within the BMU is disrupted. This review focuses on the roles of the cells in the BMU and the interaction between these cells and the factors involved in regulating bone remodeling at the cellular level. Understanding the process of bone remodeling and related genes could help us to lay the foundation for drug development against bone diseases.

Citation: HU Yuanbo, WANG Lesha, JIANG Lei, XU Huazi, ZHU Sipin. Progress in the regulation of bone remodeling at the cellular level. Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2017, 34(3): 471-479. doi: 10.7507/1001-5515.201606011 Copy

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