Is insulin an anabolic agent in bone? Dissecting the diabetic bone for clues
Kathryn M. Thrailkill,
Charles K. Lumpkin, Jr.,
R. Clay Bunn,
Stephen F. Kemp, and
John L. Fowlkes
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Childrens Hospital Research Institute, Little Rock, Arkansas
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ABSTRACT
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Diabetic osteoporosis is increasingly recognized as a significant comorbidity of type 1 diabetes mellitus. In contrast, type 2 diabetes mellitus is more commonly associated with modest increases in bone mineral density for age. Despite this dichotomy, clinical, in vivo, and in vitro data uniformly support the concept that new bone formation as well as bone microarchitectural integrity are altered in the diabetic state, leading to an increased risk for fragility fracture and inadequate bone regeneration following injury. In this review, we examine the contribution that insulin, as a potential anabolic agent in bone, may make to the pathophysiology of diabetic bone disease. Specifically, we have assimilated human and animal data examining the effects of endogenous insulin production, exogenous insulin administration, insulin sensitivity, and insulin signaling on bone. In so doing, we present evidence that insulin, acting as an anabolic agent in bone, can preserve and increase bone density and bone strength, presumably through direct and/or indirect effects on bone formation.
type 1 diabetes mellitus; type 2 diabetes mellitus; osteoblasts; osteoporosis; insulin receptors; hyperinsulinism
IN A RECENT REVIEW by Riggs and Parfitt (94) the authors propose specific criteria for classifying an agent, be it drug or hormone, as an anabolic agent for bone. They provide the following definition: [An anabolic drug] increases bone strength by increasing bone mass substantially as a result of an overall increase in bone remodeling [more BMUs (bone multicellular units) are formed] combined with a positive BMU balance (the magnitude of the formation phase is more than that of the resorption phase). Although some anabolic drugs also may induce renewed modeling, increased periosteal apposition, and repair of trabecular microstructure, these are not required properties.
In this review, we will evaluate the literature to apply these criteria to insulin to determine whether this hormone is indeed an anabolic agent in bone.
Insulinopenia as occurs in type 1 diabetes (T1DM) or resistance to the metabolic actions of insulin as occurs in type 2 diabetes (T2DM), are both associated with several deleterious consequences for skeletal health. Skeletal defects that are observed in conjunction with T1DM include 1) diminished linear bone growth during the pubertal growth spurt in adolescents with diabetes, 2) decreased adult bone density, 3) an increased risk for adult osteoporosis, 4) an increased risk of fragility fracture, and 5) poor bone healing and regeneration characteristics. In contrast, T2DM, a state of hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance, is typically associated with increased bone density, yet seemingly decreased bone strength contributing again to an increased risk of fracture. Recognizing that these two clinical entities are typically characterized by differences in insulin secretion, insulin sensitivity, and/or exogenous insulin administration, we present a review of clinical, in vivo and in vitro evidence examining whether insulin, as both a drug and hormone, qualifies as an anabolic agent for bone.
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CLINICAL DICHOTOMY BETWEEN T1DM AND T2DM AND BONE HEALTH
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Clinical Definitions
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines osteopenia as a bone mineral density (BMD) of between 1 and 2.5 SD below that of a young normal adult (i.e., T-score between 1 and 2.5). Osteoporosis is defined by the WHO as a BMD
2.5 SD below that of a young normal adult (i.e., T-score of
2.5) (143). Definitions put forth by the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) differ slightly, in that the NOF recommends initiation of therapy to reduce fracture risk in individuals with a T-score
2 SD or, for individuals with additional risk factors for osteoporosis (including diabetes), a T-score
1.5 SD (84). Both definitions are focused on the Caucasian postmenopausal female population, providing no specific definitions for men or younger age groups. This review has incorporated literature spanning dates from 1968 to 2005 and examined populations from pediatric to geriatric. Although the majority of citations were published within the past 10 years, some clinical references also predate the current diagnostic use of the terms osteopenia and osteoporosis. Therefore, wherever possible, we have quoted the terminology utilized by the original authors of quoted publications, recognizing that this approach will not uniformly align with currently accepted standard diagnostic terminology.
Osteopenia and Osteoporosis: T1DM
A number of historical studies demonstrate that osteopenia and osteoporosis are frequent complications of T1DM (7, 49, 76), in both children (98, 103) and adults (77). However, such studies reflect periods of significantly less stringent glucometabolic control, less efficacious treatment options, and older densitometric techniques (specifically, photon absorptiometry techniques and radiogrammetry). It is relevant, therefore, that more recent studies confirm that T1DM is associated with decreased bone density (39, 60, 82, 127) and a state of low bone turnover (60). For example, Kemink et al. (60) found that, among a population of 35 middle-aged patients with uncomplicated T1DM (duration of DM, 8.5 ± 3.5 yr), 57% of females and 67% of males had osteopenia (T-score
1 SD) of the femoral neck and/or lumber spine and 14% of males met criteria for osteoporosis (T-score
2.5). Low bone density was associated with lower mean plasma insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), serum alkaline phosphatase, and serum osteocalcin levels, suggesting decreased bone formation among these individuals (60). Similarly, Kayath et al. (58) studied 90 T1DM patients, ages 1854 yr, and found that 34% had osteopenia (Z-score = 1 SD), whereas Muñoz-Torres et al. (82) reported that 19% of 94 T1DM patients, ages 2056 yr, met WHO diagnostic criteria for osteoporosis. A study by Tuominen et al. (127) of 56 type 1 DM patients, all of whom had developed T1DM after 30 yr of age, also demonstrated a significant decrease in BMD compared with age-matched controls. A review of studies of BMD in adult subjects with T1DM conducted over the past 10 yr is presented in Table 1 (see Ref. nos. in table). Of these 15 studies, 13 studies report some decrement in BMD in the T1DM study population.
Classically, osteoporosis has been considered a disease of the aging adult population. In T1DM, however, the situation may be quite different, with either insufficient bone accrual or bone loss occurring at a very young age. The timing of the onset of diabetic bone disease remains somewhat controversial. Many studies have suggested that low BMD is already apparent at the time of diagnosis (71). Other work suggests that neither indexes of bone formation (6) nor BMD (15) are impaired in the recently diagnosed child with T1DM, indicating that metabolic consequences of the disease over time may be more important than a predisposing genotypic covariant. In any event, it is well supported that lower bone mass usually develops within the first few years of T1DM (35, 77, 98). A review of pediatric studies of bone density and T1DM conducted in the past 10 years is presented in Table 2. Six of nine reports demonstrate a significant decrement in BMD in adolescent patients compared with age-matched control subjects in at least one skeletal site. For example, as reported by Gunczler et al. (35), significant deficits in lumbar spine BMD were already apparent in >50% of 26 children with T1DM, mean age 12.1 ± 3.1 yr, and a mean duration of DM of only 4.3 ± 2.9 yr, implying a relatively rapid impact of T1DM on bone health. Similar findings have subsequently been confirmed by others (22, 43). The clinical relationship between diminished BMD and glycemic control remains unclear in these pediatric studies; some report a clearly negative correlation between BMD and Hb A1c (43, 66, 129), whereas other studies demonstrating an impact of T1DM on BMD show no association between BMD and metabolic control (22, 35).
There are several potential explanations for the inconsistencies noted among these pediatric studies. It is expected that the earliest changes in BMD induced by diabetes would be noted in metabolically active trabecular bone. Of note, two of six studies demonstrating an effect of T1DM on BMD utilized peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) either alone (66) or in conjunction with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) (43), which provided distinct assessments of the trabecular bone BMD. Duration of disease was also variable among these studies, and two of three reports showing no change in BMD examined subjects with the shortest mean duration of T1DM (15, 88). Of those studies demonstrating a significant correlation of BMD with metabolic control, two utilized a "long-term" assessment of glycemic control [i.e., 12 months of serial Hb A1c measurements (43) or the mean of Hb A1c measurements from the onset of disease to the last measurement (129)] rather than a single point-in-time Hb A1c, and one study utilized pQCT techniques for measurement of BMD. Although other literature suggests that the effects of diabetes on BMD may be partially independent of metabolic control, the "diabetes impact index" (129) or the combined contribution of lifetime glycemic control coupled with duration of disease might prove to be more influential than is currently appreciated. Finally, the use of DEXA among pediatric populations has several limitations that have been reviewed elsewhere (4) but could contribute to inconsistencies noted when one is comparing pediatric clinical studies.
Pediatric studies as a whole, however, suggest that the impact of T1DM on skeletal health may be especially pertinent during adolescence. Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by physiological, hormonal, nutritional, cognitive, and psychological changes, all of which can have an impact on diabetes management and disease morbidity. With respect to bone health, numerous diabetes-associated perturbations in adolescence are particularly detrimental to bone (for detailed review, see Ref. 125). Studies suggest that type 1 diabetics, during adolescence, experience 1) exaggerated dysregulation of the growth hormone/IGF-I/IGF-binding protein (IGFBP) axis, contributing to a puberty-associated deterioration in glycemic control and/or worsening of insulin resistance (17); 2) noncompliance with medical management recommendations (56, 140), again leading to poorer metabolic control; 3) insufficient dietary calcium intake, particularly among females (2, 61); 4) an increase in daily urinary calcium excretion (8); and 5) a higher incidence of subclinical eating behavior disorders, contributing to poor weight maintenance and/or relative malnutrition (125). All of these confounding variables may have independent negative impacts upon bone mineral acquisition in T1DM and, ultimately, on peak bone mass.
Osteopenia and Osteoporosis: T2DM
In contrast to T1DM, T2DM is typically not associated with osteopenia or osteoporosis, and among women is most often associated with higher measurements of bone mineral density. A review of studies of bone density and T2DM conducted in the past 10 years is presented in Table 3. To date, our review has identified only studies of adult subjects with T2DM, with the majority of these representing the postmenopausal female population (Table 3). However, Strotmeyer et al. (117) recently confirmed an association of higher BMD in T2DM by examining a multiracial, male and female elderly population. In that study, they demonstrated that T2DM "was associated cross-sectionally with 28% higher regional and whole body BMD, both areal and volumetric measures, even with adjustment for body composition variables of lean mass, fat mass, and abdominal visceral fat and other confounding factors." Of note, however, T2DM was associated in this study with the unique finding of lower spine bone volume. Parkinson and Fazzalari (87) have demonstrated that at low bone volume the structural integrity of cancellous bone is rapidly compromised. Consistent with this, Strotmeyer et al. suggest that a finding of lower bone volume in diabetes may account for presumed deficits in bone strength, leading to the paradoxically increased fracture risk noted in this same population (see Fracture Risk, below).
The etiology of the increased BMD in T2DM remains unclear, as evidence of decreased bone resorption (19, 21), increased bone resorption (53), decreased bone formation (63), and increased bone formation (19) have all been reported. Krakauer et al. (63), examining histological data from transiliac bone biopsies in six subjects with T2DM, demonstrated low bone turnover, hypothesizing a protective effect of a low bone turnover state over time in aging type 2 diabetics. In addition, some contribution of concurrent obesity to BMD is likely, independent of hyperinsulinemia (37).
Studies in subjects with T2DM frequently do not specify and/or analyze results on the basis of treatment type (diet vs. oral hypoglycemic agent vs. insulin), which could also account for the inconsistencies in studies of bone density in T2DM. Animal studies illustrate these differences. Specifically, in mice, rosiglitazone administration results in a significant decrease in BMD, bone volume, and bone formation rate associated with a decrease in osteoblast-specific gene expression (100), and increased apoptotic death of osteoblasts (114). In contrast, insulin administration to the point of hyperinsulinemia stimulates osteoblast activity and mineral apposition rates (135). Differences in treatment modalities also likely imply differences in disease severity, further confounding the outcome of such studies. Thus the impact of endogenous insulin production, insulin sensitivity, and exogenous insulin administration as an anabolic agent for bone in T2DM has not been clarified.
Fracture Risk
In contrast to the discrepancy between the T1DM and T2DM populations and bone mineral density, diabetic populations with either disease uniformly appear to have a higher risk for bone fracture. Several large prospective clinical studies conducted in the US (59, 85) and Norway (29, 80) have demonstrated that a history of T1DM is associated with an increased risk of hip (29, 80, 85) and upper extremity fracture (80), with a reported relative risk ranging from 5.81 (80) to 12.25 (85). In a comprehensive review of the literature from 1982 to 1997, including 94 cohort and 72 case-controlled studies of risk factors associated with increased fracture rates, T1DM was among the top 10 factors associated with the highest risk of fracture (23). An increased incidence of calcaneal fracture has also been reported (44). To date, only a few studies dispute this association (78).
An increase in fracture risk is also reported among older patients with T2DM (29, 85, 90, 106, 119), despite frequently reported normal or increased BMD among type 2 diabetics (40, 52, 106, 127). Age-adjusted relative risk ratios (RR) for fracture among individuals with T2DM ranged from 1.4 to 2.9 in these studies (typically 1.7 to 1.9) and frequently demonstrated an increasing RR with longer duration of disease.
The increase in fracture risk in both T1DM and T2DM, despite variations in BMD, would suggest that factors independent of BMD might also contribute to the increased relative risk for fractures. For example, among patients with diabetes, fracture risk is exacerbated by the concurrent risk for falls (93, 107) and traumatic injury among these individuals, which can result from several diabetes-related comorbidities. Specifically, hypoglycemia unawareness and hypoglycemic seizures (45), visual impairment (55), peripheral neuropathy and gait disturbance secondary to lower-extremity abnormalities or insensate feet (79, 137), and nocturnal polyuria (3a) all contribute to a higher risk of falling. Moreover, peripheral neuropathy appears to be an independent risk factor leading to further reduction in BMD among T1DM patients (90, 96). Among patients with T2DM, discrepancies between increased BMD, yet decreased bone strength, have also been proposed.
Prolonged fracture union time and prolonged healing are also seen in patients with diabetes (70). Specifically, the presence of diabetes is associated with an increased risk of wound complications following surgical treatment of fractures (25) and non-union or mal-union of healing fracture sites (108, 122).
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HYPOINSULINEMIA vs. HYPERINSULINEMIA
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Among the T1DM population, numerous factors may contribute to the development of osteopenia (progressing to osteoporosis) over the lifetime of an individual with T1DM, including 1) insufficient skeletal mineralization during critical periods of bone mass accrual; 2) increased urinary calcium excretion coupled with diminished calcium absorption, leading to chronic calcium deficiency; 3) lifelong effects of chronic hyperglycemia on osteoblast function; 4) detrimental effects of accumulated glycated end products on bone formation; 5) insulinopenia; 6) diabetes-induced dysregulation of the GH-IGF axis (123); and 7) a disproportional representation of the Caucasian population among disease demographics. When contrasted with the T2DM population and an associated increased BMD, however, factors 2, 3, 4, and 7 listed above do not appear to explain the discrepancies between the T1DM and T2DM populations, since chronic hyperglycemia, hypercalciuria, accumulation of advanced glycation end products, and multiracial uniformity of these findings are common to both groups. What does emerge, however, as clearly divergent are the differences in insulin concentrations (insulinopenia vs. hyperinsulinism) and IGF concentrations (decreased vs. normal or increased) between T1DM and T2DM (123). This suggests that either direct effects of insulin or indirect effects of insulin (e.g., hyperandrogenism secondary to hyperinsulinism, increased hepatic IGF-I production, and/or increased IGF-I bioavailability through reduction in IGFBP-1 production, etc.) may play a significant role in bone health in diabetes. In fact, several studies have demonstrated a positive correlation between BMD and insulin dose (31, 139), or 24-h urinary C-peptide excretion (31) among patients with T2DM, suggesting that hyperinsulinemia per se (either endogenous or exogenous) may prevent age-related declines in BMD. Dennison et al. (14) demonstrated a higher BMD, after adjustment for BMI, among newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics, compared with euglycemic individuals and noted a positive association with insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia, suggesting a causal anabolic effect of insulin on bone. Similarly, in studies of nondiabetic postmenopausal women, Barrett-Conner et al. (5) found a positive association between bone density of the radius and spine and fasting insulin levels, whereas Reid et al. (92) demonstrated a correlation between bone density throughout the skeleton and both fasting and glucose-stimulated insulin levels. Taken together, these studies again suggest that clinical hyperinsulinemia may preserve and maintain bone mass. We next examine in vivo and in vitro data relating to the role of insulin as an anabolic agent in bone.
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IN VIVO EVIDENCE OF INSULIN AS AN ANABOLIC AGENT IN BONE
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Impaired fracture healing is observed not only clinically but also in experimental models of both T1DM and T2DM (32, 46, 70, 74). In support of a role for insulin in various stages of fracture repair, experimental studies show that the diabetic fracture callus demonstrates impaired biomechanical properties, reduced cell proliferation, and reduced collagen content (32, 74, 116, 126).
Several investigators have studied bone healing and regeneration using T1DM rat models. The diabetic BB (BioBreeding) rat has been the most studied model of spontaneous diabetes among rodent models. The other model most commonly studied is the chemically induced [i.e., streptozotocin (STZ)] T1DM model, which causes destruction of the insulin-producing
-cells in the pancreas. Studies using these models suggest that several potential underlying mechanisms may contribute to bone pathology in insulin-deficiency. STZ-induced diabetes in rats, as in poorly controlled T1DM in humans, causes nonosmotic hypercalciuria, which can lead to a negative Ca2+ balance (138). Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) may also contribute to poor bone strength (68, 89), and increased receptors for AGEs (RAGEs) are manifested in a fracture-healing model in chemically-induced diabetes in mice (102). In the skeletal growth centers of diabetic animals, levels of IGF-I, IGF-I receptors, and insulin receptors (IRs) are reduced (75), implying dysregulation of IGF action on bone in the diabetic state. And, during fracture healing, diabetic rats exhibit alterations in the timing and/or quantity of type II and type X collagen mRNA expression (33).
The degree of glycemic control (which is directly related to insulin sufficiency) has been shown to strongly correlate with bone integrity in T1DM rodent models. By use of the BB rat as a model, it has been shown that the degree of overall glycemic control correlates with fracture healing (26, 28). In rats experiencing poorly controlled diabetes, severe mineralization defects have been noted and remain evident up to 6 wk after the fracture event (26). In contrast, animals with improved glycemic control showed much improved fracture healing. Additionally, the size of the fracture also was an independent variable in predicting successful repair, irrespective of the diabetic state (27). Other models using titanium implants in chemically induced diabetes (113), bacterial infection in STZ-treated mice (42), and distraction osteogenesis in nonobese diabetic mice (124) have all shown deficits in new bone formation, suggesting that the diabetic metabolic state has a negative impact on bone-forming cells. Indeed, it has been postulated that diabetes can revert osteoblasts into reticent bone-lining cells, and this is supported by recent studies showing that the diabetic state influences infiltrating cells in a marrow ablation model to behave as immature mesenchymal cells and not differentiate into mature osteoblasts, likely due to altered gene expression of proosteoblastic proteins (72). These reports share two conclusions: 1) bone regeneration is impaired in insulin deficiency; and 2) regeneration can be restored by insulin treatment, even in the face of moderate hyperglycemia, suggesting a primary role for insulin in bone formation.
Evidence for a direct link between insulin action and bone formation in vivo is scant. Newer studies in transgenic models have helped elucidate a potential role for insulin as an anabolic agent in osteoblastogenesis. The IR is a tyrosine kinase receptor and signals intracellularly through insulin receptor substrate (IRS) molecules, termed IRS-1 to IRS-4. Knockout mice null for IRS-1 and IRS-2 result in unique bone phenotypes: in vivo, IRS-2 appears to maintain dominance of bone formation over bone resorption, whereas IRS-1 regulates bone turnover (1, 86). Recently, it has been shown that bone healing is impaired in IRS-1-deficient mice and can be corrected with reexpression of IRS-1 within the fracture site (111). IRS molecules also mediate IGF receptor signaling, so some cross talk through IRS may take place via insulin and IGF signaling in osteoblasts; however, knowing that levels of IGF-I, IGF-I receptors, and IRs are all reduced in the skeletal growth centers of diabetic animals (75), it could be speculated that impaired insulin signaling in bone-forming cells results in a secondary and local IGF-I deficiency. Indeed, ablation of 8098% of the IR in mosaic mice results in extreme growth retardation, suggesting a primary role for the IR in promoting normal skeletal development (62). Because IRs are also present on osteoclasts and insulin has been shown to inhibit osteoclastic activity in vitro (121), the net effect of insulin on bone, as suggested by in vivo models, is one of proformation and possibly of decreased resorption, both attributes of an anabolic agent for bone.
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EFFECTS OF INSULIN ON THE BIOMECHANICAL AND MICROARCHITECTURAL QUALITY OF BONE: IN VIVO STUDIES
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Recent studies examining rat models of diabetes have demonstrated detrimental effects of insulin deficiency on various biomechanical properties of bone. Many studies performed in animal models, and in rat models in particular, suggest that insulin deficiency can result in decreased bone integrity. Measurements of bone strength in T1DM models have revealed that diabetes and insulin deficiency can have a negative impact on bone strength and bone composition. In a long-term T1DM model, Einhorn et al. (18) showed that diabetic bones display specific defects of bone mineralization, including decreased hydroxyapatite crystal perfection, decreased calcium-to-phosphate composition of the ash, and decreased ash content in certain bones such as the tibial metaphysis. These authors also found that the bones from diabetic animals exhibited reduced strength-related properties, along with a compensatory increase in stiffness, suggesting a possible alteration in bone crystal structure. Bone strength has also been shown to be diminished in T1DM rats at the femur and the femoral neck (16, 48). In a number of T1DM animal studies, histomorphometric analyses have shown that, irrespective of the model used, insulin-deficient rats may exhibit reduced or absent bone formation and this decline is appreciated in relation to all bone surfaces examined, i.e., trabecular, periosteal, and endocortical (132134). The major deficits in these insulin-deficient models appear to be related to a deficit in mineralized surface area, a decrement in the rate of mineral apposition, deceased osteoid surface, depressed osteoblast activity, and decreased numbers of osteoclasts (34, 104, 112, 135), leading to an overall depression in remodeling of bone in the untreated insulin-deficient state. These data are supported by surrogate markers, such as the osteoblast marker osteocalcin, which is also generally depressed in the untreated diabetic rat (20, 131), as is urinary deoxypyridinoline, an index of bone resorption (136). In keeping with the attributes of an anabolic bone agent, insulin therapy appears to reverse these histomorphometric, biomechanical, and biochemical abnormalities and improves bone strength (26, 28, 48).
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IN VITRO EVIDENCE OF INSULIN AS AN ANABOLIC AGENT IN BONE
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Several lines of evidence from in vitro bone cell cultures support the idea that insulin can exert direct anabolic effects on bone cells. For example, primary calvarial osteoblasts and multiple osteoblast-like cell lines express a significant number of IRs on the cell surface and have a high capacity for insulin binding (67, 91, 120). In response to physiological doses of insulin, cultured osteoblasts show increased rates of proliferation (41, 141), collagen synthesis (10, 91, 97), alkaline phosphatase production (11, 64), and glucose uptake (38, 54). How insulin signaling might promote osteoblastogenesis is speculative; however, studies examining pancreatic
-cells suggests a direct action of insulin to inactivate p27, a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor that could attenuate cell proliferation in osteoblasts (128). In addition, a direct signaling sequence from the IR to PI 3-kinase to protein kinase B (PKB) to Bcl-2-associated death promoter (BAD) causes inhibition of apoptosis and increases cell survival in various cell systems (142). Therefore, possible direct actions of insulin on bone cells may include mitogenic stimulation of bone-forming cells, coupled with inhibition of apoptosis.
In addition to the direct effects of insulin on bone cells, insulin may exert synergistic effects with other anabolic agents in bone, such as IGF-I and parathyroid hormone (PTH). IGFBP-1 is acutely downregulated by insulin in a variety of tissues and is similarly suppressed by insulin in bone cells (13). Therefore, insulin, by decreasing IGFBP-1, may allow bone cells to be more sensitive to IGFs in the pericellular environment. With respect to PTH, pretreatment of UMR-106-01 osteoblast-like cells with a physiological concentration of insulin has been shown to increase the level of PTH-stimulated cAMP production compared with cAMP production generated by PTH alone (47). Another report shows that, although PTH decreases and insulin slightly increases DNA synthesis in UMR-106-01 cells, chronic exposure of cells to PTH followed by an acute exposure to insulin increases DNA synthesis more than tenfold over stimulation by insulin alone (24). These studies are consistent with the recent finding that insulin plus PTH results in greater bone recovery in diabetic rats compared with insulin or PTH treatment alone (118). Other in vitro studies have reported inhibitory effects of insulin on second messenger generation by PTH when insulin is added prior to or alongside PTH (50, 51). Therefore, it will be necessary to explore further the potential anabolic interrelationships between insulin and PTH on bone cells, as synergism may be an important feature of insulins actions on bone.
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FUTURE DIRECTIONS
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Although both clinical and animal data, as well as in vitro studies, strongly suggest an anabolic role for insulin in bone, future studies are needed to address mechanisms underlying the observations and outcomes herein reviewed. The IR has been deleted in a tissue-specific manner in a number of tissues (83); however, bone cells have not been studied in this regard. Therefore, a systematic approach to delete the IR in bone marrow precursors, in early and late osteoblasts, and/or in osteoclasts could refine the understanding of how insulin signaling works in the various skeletal compartments in bone modeling and remodeling. It is also unclear how systemic insulin administration may differ in its impact on the skeleton compared with local delivery, which would have much less impact on glycemic response and metabolism. Thus studies looking at local insulin delivery on bone formation will be needed to sort between insulins direct effects on skeletal cells versus the more complex metabolic reaction to insulin administered peripherally. Also in need of clarification is how bone cells might remain sensitive to the anabolic effects of insulin even when other organs may be resistant to insulin action (e.g., hepatic tissue in T2DM). Studies designed to look at "selective" insulin-resistant pathways in bone cells need to be pursued, as two separate signaling pathways have been described for insulin action: 1), a metabolic pathway that involves glucose uptake and is mediated via IRS-1 and -2 phosphorylation and subsequent activation of PI 3-kinase (110); and 2), a mitogenic pathway that occurs through phosphorylation of Shc and downstream activation ultimately of mitogen-activated protein kinases (105). Resistance in one pathway and simultaneous sensitivity in the other pathway have been well described and therefore may also be applicable to bone cells in the insulin-resistant state.
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SUMMARY
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We propose that the combination of data presented in this review should qualify insulin as an anabolic agent for bone formation for the following reasons. 1) Clinical studies demonstrating a decreased adolescent growth velocity, and a relatively rapid onset of demonstrable deficits in bone density in pediatric patients with T1DM, suggest a role for insulin sufficiency in periosteal surface bone modeling (i.e., bone growth). 2) The clinical dichotomy between T1DM and T2DM with respect to bone density is consistent with the opposing insulin-secretory states (i.e., hypoinsulinemia vs. hyperinsulinemia) in these two diseases, suggesting a preferential effect of insulin on bone formation. 3) The insulin-signaling apparatus is clearly present and involved in bone growth and bone formation. 4) Clinical, in vivo, and in vitro studies all suggest that insulin improves bone formation via proosteoblastic mechanisms. And 5) insulin deficiency in animal models is associated with abnormalities of bone microarchitecture, which can be prevented with insulin replacement. Taken together, these findings suggest that insulin, as an anabolic agent, can preserve and increase bone strength through its effects on bone formation. The persistence of fracture risk in certain hyperinsulinemic states (i.e., T2DM), however, underscores the multifactorial nature of the effects of diabetes on bone and may suggest a threshold for insulin in promoting healthy bone.
To unravel and isolate insulins actions on diabetic and normal bone formation and repair will not be an easy task. Fortunately, the tools available to study the underlying mechanisms (e.g., recombinant proteins, signal transduction inhibitors, genetic mouse models, etc.) are becoming increasingly available. Despite the underlying complexity, understanding and dissecting the unique anabolic actions of insulin in bone should facilitate the development of interventions to improve bone health in states of insulin dysregulation.
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GRANTS
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This work was supported in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health to Arkansas Childrens Hospital Research Institute (C06 RR-16517), K. M. Thrailkill (DK-62999-04), and J. Fowlkes (DK-055653), and from the Arkansas Biosciences Institute funded by the Arkansas Tobacco Settlement Plan (no. 35600).
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FOOTNOTES
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Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: K. M. Thrailkill, Arkansas Childrens Hospital, 800 Marshall St., Springer Bldg., Mail Slot 512-6, Little Rock, AR 72202 (e-mail: thrailkillkathrynm{at}uams.edu)
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