Abstracts tagged "insulin-like growth factor and microbiome"

Abstract Number: 2998 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Gut Microbiota Induce IGF-1 and Promote Bone Formation and Growth
Jing Yan¹, Jeremy Herzog², Kelly Tsang¹, R. Balfour Sartor², Antonios Aliprantis³ and Julia F. Charles¹, ¹Medicine/Rheumatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ²National Gnotobiotic Rodent Resource Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, ³Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Appreciation of the role of the gut microbiome in regulating vertebrate metabolism has exploded recently. However, the effects of gut microbiota on skeletal growth…