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Ning B, Mustafy T, Londono I, Laporte C, Villemure I. Impact loading intensifies cortical bone (re)modeling and alters longitudinal bone growth of pubertal rats. Biomech Model Mechanobiol 2023:10.1007/s10237-023-01706-5. [PMID: 37000273 DOI: 10.1007/s10237-023-01706-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 04/01/2023]
Abstract
Physical exercise is important for musculoskeletal development during puberty, which builds bone mass foundation for later in life. However, strenuous levels of training might bring adverse effects to bone health, reducing longitudinal bone growth. Animal models with various levels of physical exercise were largely used to provide knowledge to clinical settings. Experiments from our previous studies applied different levels of mechanical loading on rat tibia during puberty accompanied by weekly in vivo micro-CT scans. In the present article, we apply 3D image registration-based methods to retrospectively analyze part of the previously acquired micro-CT data. Longitudinal bone growth, growth plate thickness, and cortical bone (re)modeling were evaluated from rats' age of 28-77 days. Our results show that impact loading inhibited proximal bone growth throughout puberty. We hypothesize that impact loading might bring different growth alterations to the distal and proximal growth plates. High impact loading might lead to pathological consequence of osteochondrosis and catch-up growth due to growth inhibition. Impact loading also increased cortical bone (re)modeling before and after the peak proximal bone growth period of young rats, of which the latter case might be caused by the shift from modeling to remodeling as the dominant activity toward the end of rat puberty. We confirm that the tibial endosteum is more mechano-sensitive than the periosteum in response to mechanical loading. To our knowledge, this is the first study to follow up bone growth and bone (re)modeling of young rats throughout the entire puberty with a weekly time interval.
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Affiliation(s)
- Bohao Ning
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3A7, Canada
- CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, 3175 Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road, Montréal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3A7, Canada
- CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, 3175 Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road, Montréal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada
- Department of Civil Engineering, Military Institute of Science and Technology, Dhaka, 1216, Bangladesh
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- CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, 3175 Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road, Montréal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada
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- CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, 3175 Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road, Montréal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada
- Department of Electrical Engineering, École de Technologie Supérieure, 1100 Notre-Dame Street West, Montréal, QC, H3C 1K3, Canada
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, P.O. Box 6079, Station Centre-Ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3A7, Canada.
- CHU Sainte-Justine Research Centre, 3175 Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road, Montréal, QC, H3T 1C5, Canada.
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Zhao D, Hua R, Riquelme MA, Cheng H, Guda T, Xu H, Gu S, Jiang JX. Osteocytes regulate bone anabolic response to mechanical loading in male mice via activation of integrin α5. Bone Res 2022; 10:49. [PMID: 35851577 PMCID: PMC9293884 DOI: 10.1038/s41413-022-00222-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2021] [Revised: 05/25/2022] [Accepted: 06/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Physical mechanical stimulation can maintain and even increase bone mass. Here, we report an important role of osteocytic integrin α5 in regulating the anabolic response of bone to mechanical loading using an Itga5 conditional gene knockout (cKO) mouse model. Integrin α5 gene deletion increased apoptotic osteocytes and reduced cortical anabolic responses to tibial compression including decreased endosteal osteoblasts and bone formation, and increased endosteal osteoclasts and bone resorption, contributing to the decreased bone area fraction and biomechanical properties, leading to an enlarged bone marrow area in cKO mice. Similar disruption of anabolic responses to mechanical loading was also detected in cKO trabecular bone. Moreover, integrin α5 deficiency impeded load-induced Cx43 hemichannel opening, and production and release of PGE2, an anabolic factor, resulting in attenuated effects of the loading on catabolic sclerostin (SOST) reduction and anabolic β-catenin increase. Together, this study shows an indispensable role of integrin α5 in osteocytes in the anabolic action of mechanical loading on skeletal tissue through activation of hemichannels and PGE2-evoked gene expression. Integrin α5 could act as a potential new therapeutic target for bone loss, especially in the elderly population with impeded mechanical sensitivity.
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- Dezhi Zhao
- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, China
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, USA.
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Wang Z, Liu Y, Zhang J, Lin M, Xiao C, Bai H, Liu C. Mechanical loading alleviated the inhibition of β2-adrenergic receptor agonist terbutaline on bone regeneration. FASEB J 2021; 35:e22033. [PMID: 34739146 DOI: 10.1096/fj.202101045rr] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2021] [Revised: 10/19/2021] [Accepted: 10/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The long-term use of adrenergic medication in treating various conditions, such as asthma, increases the chances of bone fracture. Dynamic mechanical loading at a specific time is a method for improving bone quality and promoting healing. Therefore, we hypothesized that precisely controlling the mechanical environment can contribute to the alleviation of the negative effects of chronic treatment with the common asthma drug terbutaline, which is a β2-adrenergic receptor agonist that facilitates bone homeostasis and defect repair through its anabolic effect on osteogenic cells. Our in vitro results showed that terbutaline can directly inhibit osteogenesis by impairing osteogenic differentiation and mineralization. Chronic treatment in vivo was simulated by administering terbutaline to C57BL/6J mice for 4 weeks before bone defect surgery and mechanical loading. We utilized a stabilized tibial defect model, which allowed the application of anabolic mechanical loading. During homeostasis, chronic terbutaline treatment reduced the bone formation rate, the fracture toughness of long bones, and the concentrations of bone formation markers in the sera. During defect repair, terbutaline decreased the bone volume, type H vessel, and total blood vessel volume. Terbutaline treatment reduced the number of osteogenic cells. Periostin, which was secreted mainly by Prrx1+ osteoprogenitors and F4/80+ macrophages, was inhibited by treating the bone defect with terbutaline. Interestingly, controlled mechanical loading facilitated the recovery of bone volume and periostin expression and the number of osteogenic cells within the defect. In conclusion, mechanical loading can rescue negative effects on new bone accrual and repair induced by chronic terbutaline treatment.
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- Ziyan Wang
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
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Herbst EC, Felder AA, Evans LAE, Ajami S, Javaheri B, Pitsillides AA. A new straightforward method for semi-automated segmentation of trabecular bone from cortical bone in diverse and challenging morphologies. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2021; 8:210408. [PMID: 34386254 PMCID: PMC8334830 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.210408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Many physiological, biomechanical, evolutionary and clinical studies that explore skeletal structure and function require successful separation of trabecular from cortical compartments of a bone that has been imaged by X-ray micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) prior to analysis. Separation often involves manual subdivision of these two similarly radio-opaque compartments, which can be time-consuming and subjective. We have developed an objective, semi-automated protocol which reduces user bias and enables straightforward, user-friendly segmentation of trabecular from the cortical bone without requiring sophisticated programming expertise. This method can conveniently be used as a 'recipe' in commercial programmes (Avizo herein) and applied to a variety of datasets. Here, we characterize and share this recipe, and demonstrate its application to a range of murine and human bone types, including normal and osteoarthritic specimens, and bones with distinct embryonic origins and spanning a range of ages. We validate the method by testing inter-user bias during the scan preparation steps and confirm utility in the architecturally challenging analysis of growing murine epiphyses. We also report details of the recipe, so that other groups can readily re-create a similar method in open access programmes. Our aim is that this method will be adopted widely to create a reproducible and time-efficient method of segmenting trabecular and cortical bone.
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- Eva C. Herbst
- Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Research Software Development Group, Research IT Services, University College London, London, UK
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- Skeletal Biology Group, Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
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- Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, University College London, London, UK
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- School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, City University of London, London, UK
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- Skeletal Biology Group, Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The Royal Veterinary College, London, UK
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Spencer H, Moshkbouymatin N, Webb WR, Joshi A, D'Souza A. Update on the role of emerging stem cell technology in head and neck medicine. Head Neck 2021; 43:1928-1938. [PMID: 33751726 DOI: 10.1002/hed.26674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2020] [Revised: 02/23/2021] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Head and neck surgery is a broad discipline that involves the management of complex conditions such as burns, skin cancer, head and neck cancer, congenital abnormalities, and facial rejuvenation. For patients with cancer, surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy are often the main modes of treatment. Many patients require follow-up reconstructive surgery, and the use of stem cells offers novel treatments that could aid recovery. Laryngeal, tracheal, and neuronal tissues are frequently damaged by surgery in the head and neck and these tissues have little intrinsic regenerative ability. Pluripotent embryonic stem cells retain the ability to differentiate into a wide variety of cells meaning that large tissue defects can be reduced by stimulating new cell growth. Research has demonstrated potential benefits of using stem cells in facial rejuvenation procedures and the management of burns sequelae. The advancements made in the use of adult progenitor stem cells as a possible source for pluripotent stem cells (induced pluripotent stem cells) mean that ethical considerations around the use of embryological tissue can be minimized, allowing for more research to take place. Currently, the evidence base for the use of stem cells in head and neck surgery is limited, but it has now been proven that stem cells can act as a source for lost or damaged tissue in the head and neck. With continuous advancements being made in the fields of tissue engineering, it is likely that stem cells will play a major role in head and neck surgery in the future.
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- Harry Spencer
- Department of Vascular Surgery, St Georges Hospital, London, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, Health and Social Sciences, Canterbury Christ Church University, Chatham, UK
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- Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery, University Hospital Lewisham, London, UK
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- Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery, University Hospital Lewisham, London, UK
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