Osteoclast-derived exosomal miR-214-3p inhibits osteoblastic bone formation

• Main Authors: Defang Li, Jin Liu, Baosheng Guo, Chao Liang, Lei Dang, Cheng Lu, Xiaojuan He, Hilda Yeuk-Siu Cheung, Liang Xu, Changwei Lu, Bing He, Biao Liu, Atik Badshah Shaikh, Fangfei Li, Luyao Wang, Zhijun Yang, Doris Wai-Ting Au, Songlin Peng, Zongkang Zhang, Bao-Ting Zhang, Xiaohua Pan, Airong Qian, Peng Shang, Lianbo Xiao, Baohong Jiang, Chris Kong-Chu Wong, Jiake Xu, Zhaoxiang Bian, Zicai Liang, De-an Guo, Hailong Zhu, Weihong Tan, Aiping Lu, Ge Zhang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-01
• Series: Nature Communications
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10872

In previous studies the authors discovered that miR-214 inhibits osteoblastic bone formation. Here they extend on these findings, using ovariectomized mice and samples from patients with bone fractures, to show that miR-214 is a mediator of osteoclast-osteoblast crosstalk.