Abstract
Simon extracts are vitamin K1-rich food materials extracted from the leaves of the Simon sweet potato. Although vitamin K is known to stimulate bone formation, we postulated that Simon extracts also contain unknown biological compounds having the ability to regulate bone resorption. Here we prepared the vitamin K-free fraction from the Simon extracts and investigated the ability of this fraction on the differentiation of osteoclasts. A remarkable inhibitory effect of osteoclastogenesis was observed when osteoclast precursors were treated with this fraction in rat bone marrow culture systems as well as in a pure differentiation system using murine osteoclast precursor cell line. The vitamin K-free Simon extracts markedly suppressed severe bone destruction mediated by abundant osteoclasts associated with adjuvant-induced arthritis in rats. High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis revealed that the vitamin K-free Simon extracts contained three types of low molecular weight inhibitors for osteoclastogenesis; caffeic acid, chlorogenic acids and isochlorogenic acids. Among these substances, caffeic acid showed the most powerful inhibitory effects on osteoclastogenesis. Caffeic acid significantly suppressed expression of NFATc1, a key transcription factor for the induction of osteoclastogenesis. Our current study enlightened a high utility of the Simon extracts and their chemical components as effective regulators for bone resorption accompanied with inflammation and metabolic bone diseases.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 215-225 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Histochemistry and Cell Biology |
Volume | 125 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2006 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Adjuvant-induced arthritis
- Caffeic acid
- Cathepsin K
- Food materials
- NFATc1
- Osteoclastogenesis
- Simon extracts
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Histology
- Molecular Biology
- Medical Laboratory Technology
- Cell Biology