A brief historical perspective reviews studies that tested the hypotheses that PTH induces an anabolic effect in bone, and that the gain in trabecular bone was not at the expense of cortical bone. As PTH reduces the risk of fracture in humans with osteoporosis, the myths that postulated cortical bone porosity and increased bone turnover might increase fracture risk, are examined in the light of...

statement of problem: glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis is characterized by a decrease in osteoblast numbers and a marked impairment of new bone formation. purpose: the ain of present study was to evaluate the effect of methylprednisolone acetate on bone metabolism and bone mineral density in rats. materials and methods: eighteen male sprague dawley rats (8 weeks old, weighting 180 gm) were r...

bone like hydroxyapatite (nhap) was synthesized via an in situ biomimetic process in presence of wheat starch. the effect of polymer concentration alteration on the final structure of nhap was investigated. formation of the nhap at room temperature was confirmed by x-ray diffraction (xrd) and fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ft-ir). size and morphology of the nhap samples were character...

Objective(s):Various methods for repairing bone defects are presented. Cell therapy is one of these methods. Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs) seem to be suitable for this purpose. On the other hand, lots of biomaterials are used to improve and repair the defect in the body, so in this study we tried to produce a similar structure to the bone by the chitosan and hydroxyapatite. Materials and Me...

The advent of high-throughput measurements of gene expression and bioinformatics analysis methods offers new ways to study gene expression patterns. The primary goal of this study was to determine the time sequence for gene expression in a bone subjected to mechanical loading during key periods of the bone-formation process, including expression of matrix-related genes, the appearance of active...

Bone piays a pivotaE role in storing calciurri and phosphate in vertebrates. This tissue is maintained by the balance of bene formatien and bene resorption. Osteoblast-tineage c lls, consisting of osteoblasts, esteocytes and bone lining cells, are engaged in bone formation. Bene resorption is mediated by osteoclasts. Recent research revealed that receptor activator ofNF-KB (RANK)-RANK ligand (R...

Extremity amputation or traumatic injury can often lead to the formation of heterotopic ossification (HO). Studies to induce HO in rat muscle using cell-based gene therapy show that this process appears to be location dependent. In the present study, HO was induced in mice and rats through injection of immunologically matched cells transduced with either a replication-defective adenovirus posse...

Abstract It is demonstrated that nuclear transfer embryonic stem cells (NT‐ESCs) can be transformed into mesenchymal progenitor (NtMPCs) via culture under appropriate conditions and it proposed NtMPCs used for bone regeneration instead of marrow‐derived (BMSCs). In a 2‐dimensional culture, undergo chondrogenic adipogenic differentiation more readily than BMSCs upon in media. However, the osteog...