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Multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells (MMSCs) were isolated from rat femur and tibia bone marrows and examined ex vivo after 2 weeks of HU and subsequent 2 weeks of restoration of load (HU + RL). In both bones, decrease of fibroblast colony forming units (CFU-f) after HU with restoration after HU + RL detected. In CFU-f and MMSCs, levels of spontaneous\/induced osteocommitment were similar. MMSCs from tibia initially had greater spontaneous mineralization of extracellular matrix but were less sensitive to osteoinduction. There was no recovery of initial levels of mineralization in MMSCs from both bones during HU + RL. After HU, most bone-related genes were downregulated in tibia or femur MMSCs. After HU + RL, the initial level of transcription was restored in femur, while downregulation persisted in tibia MMSCs. Therefore, HU provoked a decrease of osteogenic activity of BM stromal precursors at transcriptomic and functional levels. 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