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Decreased thyroid hormone-stimulated oxygen consumption and glucose uptake in mononuclear blood cells from patients with autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type I.

Abstract
Nine patients, from four different families, with autosomal dominant osteopetrosis were investigated. They all had roentgenological type I disease, characterized by universal, symmetrical osteosclerosis and enlarged thickness of the cranial vault. All patients appeared clinically euthyroid. Thyroxine (T4) and tri-iodothyronine (T3) induced oxygen consumption and glucose uptake were studied in vitro in mononuclear blood cells from patients and control persons. Unstimulated oxygen consumption from patients and controls did not differ, and no difference in unstimulated glucose uptake was observed. The increase in T4 and T3 stimulated oxygen consumption was significantly lower in cells from patients with osteopetrosis (T4: 0.007 +/- 0.004 mumol/mg DNA per h, T3: 0.011 +/- 0.004 mumol/mg DNA per h) compared with controls (T4: 0.017 +/- 0.003 mumol/mg DNA per h, T3: 0.023 +/- -0.013 mumol/mg DNA per h; p less than 0.05, p less than 0.05). Cellular glucose uptake after T4 and T3 stimulation was significantly lower in patients (T4: 0.032 +/- 0.017 mmol/l per mg DNA per h, T3: 0.02 +/- 0.017 mmol/l per mg DNA per h) compared with controls (T4: 0.09 +/- 0.017 mmol/l per mg DNA per h, T3: 0.08 +/- 0.01 mmol/l per mg DNA per h; p less than 0.05, p less than 0.01). The reduced oxygen consumption and glucose uptake indicate thyroid hormone resistance which may be of pathogenetic importance for the development of autosomal dominant osteopetrosis type I.
AuthorsE Grodum, J Kvetny, J Bollerslev
JournalLife sciences (Life Sci) Vol. 48 Issue 21 Pg. 2027-33 ( 1991) ISSN: 0024-3205 [Print] Netherlands
PMID2034033 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
Chemical References
  • Blood Glucose
  • Thyroid Hormones
  • Triiodothyronine
  • Glucose
  • Thyroxine
Topics
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Blood Glucose (metabolism)
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Chromosome Aberrations (blood)
  • Chromosome Disorders
  • Female
  • Glucose (pharmacokinetics)
  • Humans
  • Leukocytes, Mononuclear (metabolism)
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Osteopetrosis (blood, genetics, metabolism)
  • Oxygen Consumption (drug effects)
  • Thyroid Hormones (pharmacology)
  • Thyroxine (pharmacology)
  • Triiodothyronine (pharmacology)

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