The Effect of Recombinant Human TSH on Sclerostin and Other Selected Bone Markers in Patients after Total Thyroidectomy for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

The direct effect of TSH on bone metabolism in vivo is difficult to capture as the changes of its concentrations are followed by respective alterations of thyroid hormone levels. We evaluated the effect of recombinant human TSH (rhTSH) on sclerostin and other bone markers in 29 patients after total...

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Autores principales: Arkadiusz Zygmunt, Kinga Krawczyk-Rusiecka, Elżbieta Skowrońska-Jóźwiak, Katarzyna Wojciechowska-Durczyńska, Ewa Głowacka, Zbigniew Adamczewski, Andrzej Lewiński
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Publicado: MDPI AG 2021
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Sumario:The direct effect of TSH on bone metabolism in vivo is difficult to capture as the changes of its concentrations are followed by respective alterations of thyroid hormone levels. We evaluated the effect of recombinant human TSH (rhTSH) on sclerostin and other bone markers in 29 patients after total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), without any signs of disease recurrence, who received L-thyroxine, most at non-suppressive doses. For two consecutive days, the patients were administered a standard dose of 0.9 mg rhTSH, i.m. Concentrations of sclerostin, osteocalcin, β-CrossLaps, PTH, and some other parameters, were measured before and five days after the first rhTSH administration. The greater the increase in TSH concentration (∆TSH), the greater the decrease in: ∆sclerostin (r = −0.672; <i>p</i> < 0.001), ∆β-CrossLaps (r = −0.580; <i>p</i> < 0.001) and ∆osteocalcin (r = −0.405; <i>p</i> = 0.029) levels, were recorded. The degree of TSH increase depended on the baseline PTH (r = 0.651; <i>p</i> < 0.001), age, and creatinine concentrations. rhTSH strongly inhibited bone turnover, thus, TSH—independently of thyroid hormones—exerted a direct protective effect on bone metabolism. Baseline PTH affected the magnitude of TSH increase and the degree of lowering in sclerostin and β-CrossLaps that suggest factors affecting PTH may play a role in the effect of TSH on the bone.