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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2025

Testosterone Delays Bone Microstructural Destruction via Osteoblast-Androgen Receptor-Mediated Upregulation of Tenascin-C.

Yong Xie, Meng Pan, Zeyuan Zhang, Licheng Zhang, Haotian Liu, Xia Wang, William W Lu, Peifu Tang, Wei Ge

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Yong XieDepartment of Orthopedics, The Fourth Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100048, China.
Meng PanState Key Laboratory of Complex, Severe, and Rare Diseases, Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100005, China.
Zeyuan ZhangDepartment of Orthopedics, The Fourth Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100048, China.
Licheng ZhangDepartment of Orthopedics, The Fourth Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100048, China.
Haotian LiuState Key Laboratory of Complex, Severe, and Rare Diseases, Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100005, China.
Xia WangState Key Laboratory of Complex, Severe, and Rare Diseases, Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100005, China.
William W LuDepartment of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 999077, China.
Peifu TangDepartment of Orthopedics, The Fourth Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, 100048, China.
Wei GeState Key Laboratory of Complex, Severe, and Rare Diseases, Department of Immunology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100005, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9907-512X

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2020TQ0129China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2021M693960China Postdoctoral Science Foundation XJ2021051Excellent Young Scientists Fund in Science and Technology 2021-JCJQ-ZQ-020National Key Research and Development Program of China 2022YFC2504300National Natural Science Foundation of China 82102593
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bone loss and microstructural destruction in elderly men are associated with fractures and high mortality. While testosterone (Tes) is considered to be possibly protective, its regulatory mechanism in bone remodeling remains unclear. Here, bone microarchitectural analysis indicates that elderly men exhibit reduced cortical and trabecular thickness with elevated cortical porosity, particularly at the superior femoral head near the medial acetabulum. Serum profiling of 352 individuals showed that low Tes levels (<9.415 nmol·L

Indexed as

OsteoblastsReceptors, AndrogenTenascinTestosteroneAgedAnimalsBone and BonesBone RemodelingHumansMaleMiceMice, KnockoutOsteogenesisOsteoporosisUp-RegulationReceptors, AndrogenTenascinTestosteroneTNC protein, humanbone destructionmale bonesosteoblastic androgen receptortenascin‐C

Identifiers

PMID40444453
PMCPMC12376519

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