Lovastatin increases longitudinal bone growth and bone morphogenetic protein-2 levels in the growth plate of Sprague-Dawley rats

2002 ◽  
Vol 161 (7) ◽  
pp. 406-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kanghyun Leem ◽  
Sun-Young Park ◽  
Dong-Hwan Lee ◽  
Hocheol Kim
1974 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.-G. Thorngren ◽  
L. I. Hansson

ABSTRACT Bovine growth hormone was given daily for 10 days to female Sprague-Dawley rats hypophysectomized at the age of 60 days, beginning 15 days post-operatively. Longitudinal bone growth, studied in the proximal tibia, was reactivated and continued at an accelerating rate during the period of hormone administration and for a further 5 days after its withdrawal, but then ceased. The effect of withdrawal of growth hormone on the width of the growth plate of proximal tibia, the size of its degenerative cells, and the weight of body and heart was also studied. The cell production in the proximal growth plate of tibia was calculated. The changes in longitudinal bone growth were found to be due mainly to changes in cell production in the growth plate.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Helena Gil-Peña ◽  
Ángela Fernández-Iglesias ◽  
Rocío Fuente ◽  
Laura Alonso-Duran ◽  
Fernando Santos ◽  
...  

The effect of the inhibition of the resorptive activity of osteoclastic cells induced by bisphosphonate treatment on the primary spongiosa derived from the calcified cartilage of the growth plate was studied. We focused our attention on the primary spongiosa because it is the initial trabecular bone network that is first formed directly from growth plate mineralized cartilaginous septa. The study was carried out in male Sprague-Dawley rats at the age of 35 days, coinciding with the prepubertal growth spurt, a stage characterized by the highest values for growth rate. Animals were classified in two groups, controls and rats treated with clodronate 60 mg/kg/day. Body weights and tibial length were measured. The rate of longitudinal bone growth was obtained by calceine labelling and the height of the growth plate cartilage was measured. Histochemical analysis included Alcian blue staining, detection of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatise (TRAP) activity, von Kossa staining for mineralization and immunolocalization of proliferating cells. Microscopic examination revealed numerous tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP)-positive cells at the chondroosseous junction and associated with subchondral trabeculae in control rat and that clodronate treatment induced a marked reduction of these cells. Clodronate-treated rats presented thinner subchondral trabeculae that were more irregularly oriented and decreased cell proliferation in the primary spongiosa. Results obtained showed that changes induced by clodronate treatment has little effect on the activity of the growth plate cartilage, without a significant effect on longitudinal bone growth even at doses much higher than those used in clinical practice.


1974 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.-G. Thorngren ◽  
L. I. Hansson

ABSTRACT The longitudinal bone growth of proximal tibia determined by tetracycline in hypophysectomized rats was used for the bioassay of growth hormone. Female Sprague-Dawley rats were hypophysectomized at 60 days of age and after a post-operative control period of 15 days growth hormone (NIH-GH-B16) was given daily for 5 or 10 days followed by a 10 day period after its withdrawal. A linear log dose-response relation was found for the two administration models with high precision. In the present investigation the longitudinal bone growth was more favourable as a growth parameter for the bioassay of growth hormone than the body weight and the width of the proximal tibial growth plate.


2005 ◽  
Vol 132 (4) ◽  
pp. 592-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oneida A. Arosarena ◽  
Wesley L. Collins

OBJECTIVE: To compare mandibular bone regeneration with bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2) delivered with two carriers: a hyaluronic acid polymer (HY), and a collagen carrier complexed with calcium hydroxyapatite and tricalcium phosphate (collagen/HA/TCP). STUDY DESIGN: Defects were created in the bilateral mandibular bodies of 16 Sprague-Dawley rats. The defects were filled with the HY carrier, the HY carrier loaded with BMP-2, the collagen/HA/TCP carrier, or the collagen/HA/TCP carrier loaded with BMP-2. Animals were euthanatized after 6 weeks, and the hemi-mandibles were analyzed histomorphologically. RESULTS: Specimens containing BMP-2 had significantly larger new bone and marrow volumes than control specimens. Specimens in the hyaluronan/BMP-2 group tended to have larger volumes of new bone and osteoid than collagen/HA/TCP/BMP-2 specimens, though these differences were not statistically significant. CONCLUSION: The HY and collagen/HA/TCP carriers had comparable efficacy for bone healing with BMP-2. SIGNIFICANCE: Bone morphogenetic proteins can be delivered with commercially available alloplasts as osteogenic bone substitutes for the repair of craniofacial bone defects. EBM rating: B-2.


2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anak A.G.Y. Asmara ◽  
Achmad F. Kamal ◽  
Nurjati C. Siregar ◽  
Marcel Prasetyo

Background: Heating process with autoclave is one of limb salvage modalities that are widely used. but the results are not satisfying, due to mechanical bone fragility. However, considering this treatment modality is widely accepted in terms of financial, religion and sociocultural aspects, we conducted a on study rats treated with resection and reconstruction with autoclave heating method to assess bone healing by sequential radiology, histopathologic osteoblasts count, and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP).Methods: Thirty six Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into two groups with one group being the autoclave group and others served as control group. In both groups, the tibial diaphysis was extracted en bloc for 7 mm. All groups were kept for 8 weeks and treated under the same condition except the autoclave group, where the extracted bones were put into autoclave at 134°C for 15 minutes and refixed again with k-wire. We performed radiological examination at 5th and 8th week using Lane and Sandhu radiological score. After extraction, the tibial bones were inspected for histological pattern using Salked modified score, osteoblast quantity counting and BMP-2 values.Results: There were statistically significant diffences between control and autoclave group on radiological score at 5th (5.12 ± 1.6 g vs 3.21 ± 2.42, p = 0.023) and 8th week (6.06 ± 1.71 vs 4.29 ± 2.53, p = 0.040), histological score between groups (6.06 ± 1.14 vs 4.14 ± 1.99, p = 0.005), osteoblast count (p < 0.001), and BMP-2 expression,  respectively.Conclusion: Autoclave recycling autograft lowered the speed of graft incorporation and BMP-2 expression. Therefore, autoclave recycling autograft as a method of limb salvage surgery must be reevaluated and not considered to be applied for treatment in bone malignancy.  


Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 2625
Author(s):  
Ok-Kyung Kim ◽  
Jeong moon Yun ◽  
Minhee Lee ◽  
Soo-Jeung Park ◽  
Dakyung Kim ◽  
...  

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of administration of a mixture of Humulus japonicus (MH) on longitudinal bone growth in normal Sprague Dawley (SD) rats. We measured the femur and tibia length, growth plate area, proliferation of chondrocytes, and expression of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-I) and IGF binding protein-3 (IGFBP-3), and Janus kinase 2 (JAK2)/signal transducer and activator of transcription 5 (STAT5) phosphorylation after dietary administration of MH in SD rats for four weeks. The nose–tail length gain and length of femur and tibia increased significantly in the group that received MH for a period of four weeks. We performed H&E staining and Bromodeoxyuridine/5-Bromo-2′-Deoxyuridine (BrdU) staining to examine the effect of dietary administration of MH on the growth plate and the proliferation of chondrocytes and found that MH stimulated the proliferation of chondrocytes and contributed to increased growth plate height during the process of longitudinal bone growth. In addition, serum levels of IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 and expression of IGF-1 and IGFBP-3 mRNAs in the liver and bone were increased, and phosphorylation of JAK2/STAT5 in the liver was increased in the MH groups. Based on these results, we suggest that the effect of MH on longitudinal bone growth is mediated by increased JAK2/STAT5-induced IGF-1 production.


Author(s):  
Yufeng Dai ◽  
Zhuo Li ◽  
Meng Fu ◽  
Yanqi Li ◽  
Changhu Xue ◽  
...  

Background: With the improvements in living standards, height is getting more attention. Malnutrition is one of the main causes of children's short stature, therefore nutritional intervention in adolescence is the key to prevent short stature. The peptides from Antarctic krill (AKPs), the ideal protein model, act in bone formation and anti-osteoporosis. However, the studies on promoting longitudinal bone growth by AKPs have not been reported. Methods: Three-week-old male ICR mice, to construct the adolescent mice model, randomly divided into three groups: normal group, casein group (casein, 300 mg/kgꞏBW), and AKPs group (AKPs, 300 mg/kgꞏBW). After 21 days of drugs administration, the effects of AKPs on serum biochemical indexes and femur histomorphology of mice, and the mechanism of AKPs promoting longitudinal bone growth was discussed. Results: AKPs significantly increased the longitudinal bone growth and improved bone strength. In addition, AKPs remarkably promoted proliferation and hypertrophy of chondrocytes in the growth plate. The further mechanism revealed that AKPs increased serum growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factors-1(IGF-1) contents, which activated the downstream GH/IGF-1 axis signaling pathways. Moreover, AKPs induced the secretion and expression of bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2) and triggered the activation of BMP2-dependent Smads signaling. AKPs also activated Wnt/βcatenin signaling, and synergistically activated the expression of runt-related transcription factor 2 (Runx 2) and osterix (OSX). Conclusion: AKPs promoted longitudinal bone growth by activating GH/IGF-1 axis, BMP-2/Smads and Wnt/β-catenin pathways, suggesting AKPs to be a potential nutrient fortifier for longitudinal bone growth.


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