American researchers have found a new role for bone, along with its primary function of attributing the body to its overall structure, acting as a endocrine system to secrete hormones that facilitate communication between the body's various organs.
The study was conducted by researchers at Harvard University's School of Dentistry and published in the latest issue of Scientific Science.
To reach the results of the study, the team monitored a group of mice after feeding a meal to detect the new role of bone.
The researchers found that the bones act as a silent gland, where hormones are produced as the endocrine system known in the body to facilitate the process of communication between the various organs and tissues in the body, including the brain, kidney and pancreas.
They discovered that there are at least four different hormones secreted by the bones to communicate with the organs, and play these hormones play a precise role in the regulation and control of sugar, fat and energy and stop bacterial infections in the body.
The researchers also found that these hormones produced by the bones work with the brain to regulate and control appetite, telling the brain to stop food, as well as with the pancreas and kidneys.
Chemical messages
"We considered bones to be dead, but we found them to work almost as a gland," said team leader Pete Lansky. "Bone sends chemical messages to other organs in the body via hormones to connect with them like the brain, pancreas and kidneys.
"It's logical in physiology to have bi-directional interactions between bones and other tissues," said Clifford Rosen, an endocrinologist at the Molecular Medicine Center in Scarborough, UK.
We must have a greater understanding of how bones are shaped, and what other roles this body has in the body. "
The functions of the skeleton are to support the body, as well as to connect muscles, ligaments and tendons and provide protection for vital organs such as the brain inside the skull and heart and lungs inside the rib cage.
The skeleton is also the red blood corpuscles. Bone is a major store of calcium and phosphorus salts in the body, and fat is stored in the yellow bone marrow.
Source:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170530082337.htm
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-mechanism-bone-formation-function.html