EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN PARATHYROID STATUS AND CALCIUM EQUILIBRIUM ON BONE MATRIX METABOLISM.
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Two types of adipose cells were found in the connective tissue on day 7 after bone matrix gelatin (BMG) implantation and an injection of bupivacaine: mature adipose cells with a large lipid droplet (2-140 microns) and immature adipose cells with many small lipid droplets (0.1-2 microns). On day 10 after BMG implantation, typical adipose tissue was observed near the implant. The immature adipose cells had small, spherical mitochondria, glycogen granules and cytoplasmic microvesicles, and they might differentiate from undifferentiated mesenchymal cells in the connective tissue or the peripheral cells around the vessels as a white adipose tissue. These findings suggest that the differentiation of adipose cells in the connective tissue near heterotopic bone formation might be induced not only by mechanical and/or bupivacaine injury, but also by some factor or factors of the BMG.
The use of growth factors in oral tissue regeneration is currently under investigation. When growth factors are combined with commercial materials, the in vitro mechanisms of action still remain unclear. The present study first evaluated the capacity of barrier membranes, used in oral surgery, to sequester TGFbeta(1). Resorbable HYAFF, paroguide, poly DL-lactide and nonresorbable PTFE membranes were immersed in MEM containing 0.2 ng (125)I-TGFbeta(1) for different periods of time. It was found that HYAFF membrane and paroguide sequestered the most TGFbeta(1), which was then released in its active form (as shown by the CCL64 cell line bioassay). Untreated membranes and membranes enriched with TGFbeta(1) were then used as substrate for human bone cells to evaluate the synthesis of the osteoblast phenotype, as indicated by specific parameters. Results showed that membranes enriched with TGFbeta(1) increased alkaline phosphatase activity, collagen, and osteocalcin production more than untreated membranes. HYAFF and paroguide membranes, which sequestered the most of TGFbeta(1), were the most suitable for stimulating bone matrix proteins.
A number of commercially available matrix filter supports have been designed for the immobilization of proteins following either electrotransfer from sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) polyacrylamide gels or direct application during dot blotting assays. These matrices differ with respect to chemical composition, charge, pore size, and degree of hydrophobicity. It follows that the properties of the protein(s) of interest will greatly influence the degree to which they interact with and ultimately bind to various filters. Acidic bone proteins contain diverse post-translational modifications that influence their interactions with solid phase matrices such as those used in immunoblotting (Western or dot blotting) or ion binding (overlay) procedures. This communication describes the results of a study comparing binding of various mixtures of non-collagenous acidic bone matrix phosphoproteins as well as purified osteopontin and osteocalcin to various filters including nitrocellulose and cationized paper or nylon. Based on our findings, we recommend the use of cationized filters for solid phase assays requiring the binding of these acidic macromolecules to background supports.
Osteoclasts mediate bone resorption by secretion at the site of bone attachment. This process depends on calmodulin concentrated at a specialized acid-secreting membrane. We hypothesized that increased calmodulin and bone attachment were required for acid secretion. We tested this by studying calmodulin, bone attachment, and membrane acid transport in osteoclasts and their precursor mononuclear cells. Osteoclasts and macrophages were isolated from medullary bone of hens; cell fractions were prepared after culturing cells with or without bone. Calmodulin was visualized by Western analysis; calmodulin mRNA was determined by Northern hybridization, and ATP-dependent membrane acid transport was assayed by acridine orange uptake. Calmodulin decreased in osteoclasts cultured without bone. Calmodulin in isolated macrophages was approximately 25% of osteoclast levels, but increased several fold by 5 days. Bone had no effect. Calmodulin mRNA was similar in osteoclasts with or without bone. However, only osteoclasts cultured with bone retained acid transport capacity. Macrophage calmodulin mRNA was not affected by bone, but increased three fold by day 5, paralleling protein production. Macrophages developed acid transport capacity at 3-5 days, but at lower levels than osteoclasts, and bone had no measurable effect. Chicken cells express 1.6 kb and inducible 1.9 kb calmodulin transcripts; in macrophages and osteoclasts, the 1.9 kb transcript predominated. We conclude that, following isolation, calmodulin levels decline in osteoclasts via a post-transcriptional mechanism. In cultured macrophages, by contrast, calmodulin mRNA, protein, and acid secretion increase with time independently of bone substrate, possibly reflecting differentiation in vitro. Increased calmodulin correlated with membrane acid transport capacity in both cell types. The macrophage findings indicate that stimuli other than bone influence acid transport capacity in this family of cells.
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To determine how to encourage inductive osteogenesis on bioactive ceramics and accelerate the bonding of implants to the surrounding bone, we studied the role of autolyzed antigen-extracted allogeneic bone gelatin (AAAG) in bone bonding to bioactive ceramic implants in rabbit tibiae. Smooth-surfaced plates (15 x 10 x 2 mm) of apatite and wollastonite containing glass-ceramic were implanted into the proximal metaphyses of tibiae, with AAAG packed into the medullary cavity in one limb but not in the contralateral limb, which served as a paired control. After 2, 4, 8, 16, and 25 weeks, bone bonding and bone formation at the bone/implant interfaces were evaluated by a detaching test and undecalcified histological examination. The tensile failure load increased from 2 to 25 weeks for both groups. The failure load of the AAAG-treated group was significantly greater than that of the control group at every stage. Histologically, the AAAG-treated specimens showed active new bone formation in the medullary cavity and extensive bonding between the implant and bone at early periods. The percentage of bony covering in the AAAG-treated group was significantly higher than that of the controls at all intervals except at 25 weeks. The results of this study suggest that the addition of osteoinductive AAAG to a bioactive implant may significantly accelerate bone apposition to the implant and improve the bonding process at the interface, which would help to establish an earlier and stronger bonding between the implants and the surrounding bone.
The expression of a total of 58 cytokines, growth factors, and their corresponding receptors and bone matrix proteins was assessed using reverse transcription-linked polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis to determine the similarity in the expression profile between clonal osteosarcoma-derived human osteoblast-like cell lines and primary human osteoblast-like cell cultures derived from human trabecular bone explants. The spectrum of cytokines, growth factors, and bone-related proteins expressed by three human osteosarcoma-derived cell lines, TE-85, MG-63, SaOS-2, and primary human osteoblast-like cells was found to be highly comparable and for the first time the expression of EGF, ECGF, FGF beta, oncostatin M, TNF beta, and SCF by human osteoblast-like cells was detected. Also the expression of several receptor types including IL-4R, IL-7R, IFN alpha/beta R, and SCFR was detected that has not been previously described for human osteoblast-like cells. For the factors examined, no qualitative variations in the expression profile were observed in the six primary human osteoblast-like cell cultures used in this study. Of the 58 factors examined, only 13 showed some degree of nonuniformity of expression between all of the three cell lines and primary cell cultures. These differences were seen especially in the expression of cytokine receptor mRNA and to a lesser extent with some cytokines. Differences in receptor expression would suggest that the possible spectrum of response to exogenously added factors, or even autocrine/ paracrine networks would be determined by the repertoire of receptors expressed by each cell type. Whether the differences are related to the status of cell maturation within the osteoblast development lineage or to their abberant regulation of expression cannot be concluded at this stage. However, this PCR-phenotyping approach rapidly provides a resource of information, which can be subsequently used for further in depth studies to facilitate the analysis of the molecular mechanisms, whereby the target gene of interest is modulated in a model cell line. In addition, this study indicates that at least based on the transcript expression profile of the factors analyzed, human osteosarcoma-derived osteoblast-like cells are useful as models for their nontransformed counterparts.
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Four major non-collagenous bone proteins were localised by single and double immuno- histochemistry during de novo mineralisation and bone resorption. Both osteopontin and bone sialoprotein were localised ahead of the mineralisation front, suggesting that both proteins are necessary for the initiation of bone mineralisation. This supports previous suggestions that bone sialoprotein acts as a crystal nucleator. The role of osteopontin is less certain, but might be related to ensuring that only the right type of crystal is formed. Osteocalcin and osteonectin were not present in areas of first crystal formation, but were present in the fully mineralised matrix. Their role may be to control the size and speed of crystal formation. Osteopontin, bone sialoproteins and osteocalcin (but not osteonectin) were also present at reversal lines. Interpreting this localisation together with information from the literature, the following functions are suggested during resorption: Osteocalcin may act as a chemoattractant for osteoclasts, while both osteopontin and bone sialoprotein may facilitate the binding of osteoclasts via the arg-gly-asp motif.
In order to determine the effects of age on bone quality, human bone tissue taken from adult subjects deceased from violent death was analyzed by means of fast Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometry (FTIR) in the Diffuse Reflectance mode (DR). This technique allows the characterization of both the mineral and organic parts of bone in a nondestructive manner. Only the organic part is discussed in this report. A quantitative change in the entire organic part of bone tissue is observed with the aging of subjects. The effects of these changes on bone strength were not measured.
The nature and tissue distribution of non-collagenous bone proteins synthesized by adult rat bone marrow cells, induced to differentiate in the presence of dexamethasone (DEX) and beta-glycerophosphate (beta-GP), was studied in vitro to determine the potential role of these proteins in bone formation. Northern hybridization analysis revealed a strong induction of bone sialoprotein (BSP) and osteocalcin in DEX-treated cultures, whereas the constitutive expression of secreted phosphoprotein I (SPP-1), type I collagen, SPARC, and alkaline phosphatase was stimulated 6-, 5-, 3-, and 2.5-told, respectively. Metabolic labeling of proteins showed that the sialoproteins (SPP-1 and BSP) were mostly secreted into the culture medium in the non-mineralizing (-beta-GP) cultures, but were the predominant non-collagenous proteins associated with the hydroxyapatite of the bone nodules in mineralizing cultures (+ beta-GP). Extraction of the tissue matrix with 4 M GuHCl and digestion of the demineralized tissue matrix with bacterial collagenase revealed that some BSP was also associated non-covalently and covalently with the collagenous matrix. SPP-1 was present in two distinct, 44 kDa and 55 kDa, forms in the conditioned medium of all cultures and was preferentially associated with the hydroxyapatite in the mineralizing cultures. In comparison, SPARC was abundant in culture media but could not be detected in de-mineralizing extracts of the mineralized tissue. Radiolabeling with [35SO4] demonstrated that both SPP-1 and BSP synthesized by bone cells are sulfated, and that a 35 kDa protein and some proteoglycan were covalently associated with the collagenous matrix in +DEX cultures. Labeling with [32PO4] was essentially confined to the sialoproteins; the 44 kDa SPP-1 incorporating significantly more [32PO4] than the 55 kDa SPP-1 and the BSP. These studies demonstrate that BSP and osteocalcin are only expressed in differentiated osteoblasts and that most of the major non-collagenous bone proteins associate with the bone mineral. However, some novel proteins together with some of the BSP are associated with the collagenous matrix where they can influence hydroxyapatite formation.
A 14-day orbital spaceflight was performed using ovariectomized Fisher 344 rats to determine the combined effects of estrogen deficiency and near weightlessness on tibia radial bone growth and cancellous bone turnover. Twelve ovariectomized rats with established cancellous osteopenia were flown aboard the space shuttle Columbia (STS-62). Thirty ovariectomized rats were housed on earth as ground controls: 12 in animal enclosure modules, 12 in vivarium cages, and 6 killed the day of launch for baseline measurements. An additional 18 ovary-intact rats were housed in vivarium cages as ground controls: 8 rats were killed as baseline controls and the remaining 10 rats were killed 14 days later. Ovariectomy increased periosteal bone formation at the tibia-fibula synostosis; cancellous bone resorption and formation in the secondary spongiosa of the proximal tibial metaphysis; and messenger RNA (mRNA) levels for the prepro-alpha2(1) subunit of type 1 collagen, osteocalcin, transforming growth factor-beta, and insulin-like growth factor I in the contralateral proximal tibial metaphysis and for the collagen subunit in periosteum pooled from tibiae and femora and decreased cancellous bone area. Compared to ovariectomized weight-bearing rats, the flight group experienced decreases in periosteal bone formation, collagen subunit mRNA levels, and cancellous bone area. The flight rats had a small decrease in the cancellous mineral apposition rate, but no change in the calculated bone formation rate. Also, spaceflight had no effect on cancellous osteoblast and osteoclast perimeters or on mRNA levels for bone matrix proteins and signaling peptides. On the other hand, spaceflight resulted in an increase in bone resorption, as ascertained from the diminished retention of a preflight fluorochrome label. This latter finding suggests that osteoclast activity was increased. In a follow-up ground-based experiment, unilateral sciatic neurotomy of ovariectomized rats resulted in cancellous bone loss in the unloaded limb in excess of that induced by gonadal hormone deficiency. This additional bone loss was arrested by estrogen replacement. We conclude from these studies that estrogen alters the expression of signaling peptides believed to mediate skeletal adaptation to changes in mechanical usage and likewise modifies the skeletal response to mechanical unloading.
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After a short historical survey authors summarise the histological processes of the replacement of allogen spongiosa. They compare the characteristics of the autologous and homologous bone. They review the technology of the preparation of the lyophylised spongiosa. They mention the bonematrix gelatin, bone morphogenetic protein and the fibrin sealant which increases the formers effectiveness. They demonstrate their cases, some of them in detail. They pointed out the good clinical results and suggest wider application and further investigation.
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