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- Title
Dietary quercetin inhibits bone loss without effect on the uterus in ovariectomized mice.
- Authors
Tsuji, Mitsuyoshi; Yamamoto, Hironori; Sato, Tadatoshi; Mizuha, Yoko; Kawai, Yoshichika; Taketani, Yutaka; Kato, Shigeaki; Terao, Junji; Inakuma, Takahiro; Takeda, Eiji
- Abstract
Quercetin is a major dietary flavonoid found in onions and other vegetables, and potentially has beneficial effects on disease prevention. In the present study, we demonstrate for the first time the effects of dietary quercetin on bone loss and uterine weight loss by ovariectomy in vivo. Female mice were ovariectomized (OVX) and were randomly allocated to 3 groups: a control diet or a diet with 0.25% (LQ) or 2.5% quercetin (HQ). After 4 weeks, dietary quercetin had no effects on uterine weight in OVX mice, but bone mineral density of the lumbar spine L4 and femur measured by peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) was higher in both the sham and the HQ groups than in the OVX group. Histomorphometric analysis showed that the HQ group restored bone volume (BV/TV) completely in distal femoral cancellous bone, but did not reduce the osteoclast surface area and osteoclast number when compared with the OVX group. In in-vitro experiments using mouse monocyte/macrophage cell line RAW264.7 cells, however, quercetin and its conjugate, quercetin-3-O-beta-D: -glucuronide dose-dependently inhibited the receptor activator of nuclear factor-kappa B ligand (RANKL)-induced osteoclast differentiation, and the RANKL-stimulated expression of osteoclast related genes was also inhibited by quercetin. The luciferase reporter assay showed that quercetin did not appear to have estrogenic activity through estrogen receptors. These results suggest that dietary quercetin inhibits bone loss without effect on the uterus in OVX mice and does not act as a potent inhibitor of osteoclastogenesis or as a selective estrogen receptor modulator in vivo.
- Subjects
BONE metabolism; ANIMAL experimentation; BODY weight; CELL lines; CELLS; COMPARATIVE studies; COMPUTED tomography; DOSE-effect relationship in pharmacology; FLAVONOIDS; LUMBAR vertebrae; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; MEMBRANE proteins; MICE; OVARIECTOMY; QUERCETIN; RESEARCH; TIME; UTERUS; EVALUATION research; BONE density
- Publication
Journal of Bone & Mineral Metabolism, 2009, Vol 27, Issue 6, p673
- ISSN
0914-8779
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00774-009-0088-0