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. 2021 Dec 18;10(12):3576. doi: 10.3390/cells10123576

Table 1.

Summary of the main effects of Pappa2 deficiency on auxological, hormonal, metabolic and bone mineral properties.

Constitutive Pappa2 KO Constitutive Pappa2 KO Constitutive Induction of Pappa2 KO Conditional Pappa2 KO in Osteoblasts Constitutive Human PAPP-A2 KI
Main references Conover et al. 2011 Christians et al. 2013, 2015a, 2019; Rogowska et al. 2021; Rubio et al. 2021 Christians et al. 2015a Amiri and Christians, 2015 Fujimoto et al. 2019
Auxological parameters
Body weight (BW) Ns 1 in males
Reduction in females
Reduction ns Reduction Reduction
Body length Ns in males
Reduction in females
Reduction -- Reduction in tail Reduction
Organ size Ns in males
Increase in females
ns -- -- Increase in liver
Body composition -- -- -- -- Higher fat mass. Lower lean mass
Hormonal parameters
Free Igf1 Decrease Decrease -- -- Decrease
Total Igf1 Increase Increase -- -- Increase
Igfbp5 -- Increase in plasma
Ns in liver and kidney
Increase in ovaries
Ns in tibia
ns ns --
Igfbp3 -- Decrease in serum
Ns in liver and kidney
Increase in tibia
Decrease -- Increase
Igfals -- Ns in tibia -- -- Increase
Energy metabolism
Glucose tolerance -- ns -- -- Intolerant
Insulin sensitivity -- ns -- -- Resistant
Adiposity ns -- -- --
BW loss -- Increase in fasting -- -- --
Caloric intake -- Increase in HCHD 2 -- -- --
Allometric parameters
Femur length ns Reduction -- Reduction Reduction
Femur weight -- Reduction -- -- --
Other bone dimensions -- Defects -- Defects --
Bone shape -- Defects (pelvic girdle and mandible) -- Defects (pelvic girdle and mandible) --
Bone mineral properties
Bone mineral content Decreases in trabecular and cortical femur Decrease in trabecular femur
Increase in cortical femur
--
--
--
--
Decrease in trabecular femur
Ns in cortical femur
Bone mineral composition -- Alterations in male femur -- -- --
Collagen maturity Decrease in female femur -- -- --
Bone remodeling
Bone formation and resorption -- Decreases in female serum
Increases in female tibia
-- -- --

1 Ns, not significant; 2 HCHD, high carbohydrate diet.