Clynes, G. Robinson, H. Denison, G. Evans, M. Gilmour, E. Dennison
{"title":"Bone health among premenopausal female alcoholics: A pilot study","authors":"Clynes, G. Robinson, H. Denison, G. Evans, M. Gilmour, E. Dennison","doi":"10.2174/1876525401507010014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1876525401507010014","url":null,"abstract":"We report a pilot study of bone health of alcohol dependent women. Women admitted to an alcohol-withdrawal unit (cases) and a convenience sample of controls (nursing staff) were recruited and asked to complete a lifestyle questionnaire before undergoing heel ultrasound measurements. Fasting blood samples were obtained on the day of admission (day 1) and at 5 days. Bone turnover markers (P1NP and CTX) and vitamin D levels were measured in a subset of the alcohol dependent population. Cases were less physically active than controls. Alcoholic women had lower heel ultrasound derived Stiffness Index scores (mean 85.2 (17.6)) compared with controls (mean 95.5 (18.7)) (p=0.07). P1NP rose significantly over the detoxification programme (day 1: 28.35 � g/l (12.25); day 5: 34.19 � g/l (13.16), p=0.003) but CTX change was not significant. Lifestyle factors associated with poor bone health are prevalent in female alcoholics. Significant increase in bone formation was observed 5 days after alcohol withdrawal.","PeriodicalId":89634,"journal":{"name":"The Open bone journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"14-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68144931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fate of a Total Talar Allograft to Treat Traumatic Talar Enucleation, Fifteen Years after Transplantation in Teenage Patients","authors":"R. Piet, Dobre Cristina","doi":"10.2174/1876525401507010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1876525401507010001","url":null,"abstract":"The authors describe two cases of post-traumatic loss of the whole talus treated with a total talar allograft with a follow-up of fifteen years. In one case sizing of the graft was difficult, necessitating the resection of a middle segment of the talar dome. In this case after eight years the talar dome collapsed in height for one third. In the second case where we didn't have these problems of sizing, survival of the graft after fifteen years was seen. In both cases active revascularization as shown with bone scintigraphy was still going on after this time. Although both patients have a stable ambulatory hindfoot, the functional outcome was poor in both cases.","PeriodicalId":89634,"journal":{"name":"The Open bone journal","volume":"7 1","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68144911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yan Li, Masakazu Terauchi, Tatyana Vikulina, Susanne Roser-Page, M N Weitzmann
{"title":"B Cell Production of Both OPG and RANKL is Significantly Increased in Aged Mice.","authors":"Yan Li, Masakazu Terauchi, Tatyana Vikulina, Susanne Roser-Page, M N Weitzmann","doi":"10.2174/1876525401406010008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1876525401406010008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aging is a risk factor for osteoclastic bone loss and bone fracture. Receptor activator of NF-κB ligand (RANKL) is the key effector cytokine for osteoclastogenesis and bone resorption, and is moderated by its decoy receptor osteoprotegerin (OPG). The development of an inflammatory environment during aging leads to increased bone resorption and loss of bone mineral density (BMD). Interestingly, animal and clinical studies show that OPG is actually increased in aging but fails to fully compensate for endogenous RANKL. Osteoblast- and B-lineage cells are significant sources of physiological OPG, however osteoblast OPG production declines with age, suggesting that elevated OPG in aging may be a consequence of changes in B cell function. In this study we examined BMD and indices of trabecular bone structure during aging, and B cell production of both RANKL and OPG in young and aged mice. Our data reveal significant loss of BMD and trabecular structure with age commensurate with significantly elevated concentrations of both OPG and RANKL in aged mice, and a decline in B cell populations in aged animals. Taken together our data suggest that B cells may be responsible for the elevated concentrations of OPG during aging and are essential to counteract excessive age-associated bone resorption. Paradoxically, B cells themselves likely contribute RANKL in aging and the loss of B cells with age may further contribute to the imbalance in OPG relative to RANKL that predisposes age-associated bone loss.</p>","PeriodicalId":89634,"journal":{"name":"The Open bone journal","volume":"6 ","pages":"8-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/50/46/nihms670722.PMC4429037.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33313038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Renty B Franklin, Meena Chellaiah, Jing Zou, Mark A Reynolds, Leslie C Costello
{"title":"Evidence that Osteoblasts are Specialized Citrate-producing Cells that Provide the Citrate for Incorporation into the Structure of Bone.","authors":"Renty B Franklin, Meena Chellaiah, Jing Zou, Mark A Reynolds, Leslie C Costello","doi":"10.2174/1876525401406010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1876525401406010001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Citrate is a major component of bone in all vertebrates, but its implications in bone have remained largely unknown. Recent studies identified that citrate is incorporated into the structure of the hydroxyapatite nanocrystal/collagen complex; and is essential for the important biomechanical properties of bone. This raises the important question, \"What is the source of citrate for incorporation into bone?\"; A question that heretofore had remained unresolved. Studies in this report were designed to determine the plausibility of our concept that the osteoblasts are specialized citrate-producing cells, which provide the citrate that is incorporated into the structure of bone; and that osteogenic differentiation of mesenchyme cells leads to the development of the citrate-producing osteoblasts. The results demonstrated that primary human osteoblasts exhibit the capability of citrate-production. Undifferentiated mesenchyme cells do not exhibit the capability of citrate production; and osteogenic differentiation results in citrate-producing osteoblasts. The up-regulation of zinc uptake transporter ZIP1 is essential for the manifestation of the citrate-producing capability of the osteoblasts. We determined that osteoblast transport of citrate from plasma is not a likely source of citrate in bone. Thus, this study establishes for the first time that the osteoblasts are specialized citrate-producing cells that provide the citrate for incorporation into the structure of bone; and that mesenchyme cell osteogenesis leads to differentiated citrate-producing osteoblasts. This is a new understanding; which must include the osteogenic development of citrate-producing osteoblasts, and the process of \"citration\" in concert with mineralization during bone formation. It also provides a new understanding of the role of bone in the homeostatic maintenance of plasma citrate concentration.</p>","PeriodicalId":89634,"journal":{"name":"The Open bone journal","volume":"6 ","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2174/1876525401406010001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33108064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Tibial Tray Malalignment on Micromotion and Subsidence: A Preliminary Report","authors":"S. Patil, N. Steklov, C. Colwell, M. Kester","doi":"10.2174/1876525401305010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1876525401305010001","url":null,"abstract":"Malalignment of the tibial tray in total knee arthroplasty has been linked to several complications including tibial tray subsidence, leading to revision surgery. However, quantitative biomechanical evidence to directly support the mechanism of failure is not available. We developed a model to study tibial tray micromotion and subsidence in vitro under multiaxial physiological loading conditions for up to 100,000 cycles. In Phase I, we tested four cadaver knees and two surrogate bone models to determine whether the surrogate models could reproduce the fatigue damage induced by cyclic loading. In Phase II, we tested six cadaver knees in a pairwise manner under conditions representing either neutral or varus malalignment. The surrogate bone models did not reproduce the progressive damage that was seen in human cadaver specimens. The altered loading conditions used to represent varus tray alignment increased the cyclic strain at the start of the fatigue loading and increased the cyclic strain at the end of the fatigue loading as well as the subsidence of the tray. The increase in final cyclic strain was greater in the varus condition indicating reduction in stiffness due to bone damage. This in vitro testing represents the clinical reports of early tray migration that lead to eventual aseptic loosening. This study provides biomechanical evidence supporting the hypothesis that a varus tray alignment could increase the risk of failure.","PeriodicalId":89634,"journal":{"name":"The Open bone journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68144573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Komrakova, E. Stuermer, A. Sturm, U. Schmelz, M. Tezval, K. Stuermer, S. Sehmisch
{"title":"Efficiency of 48h vs. 24h Injection of Parathyroid Hormone forAmelioration of Osteopenic Spine Properties in Male Rats","authors":"M. Komrakova, E. Stuermer, A. Sturm, U. Schmelz, M. Tezval, K. Stuermer, S. Sehmisch","doi":"10.2174/1876525401204010020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1876525401204010020","url":null,"abstract":"Daily application of parathyroid hormone (PTH 1-34) is used for treatment of osteoporosis. It was investigated whether orchiectomy-induced osteoporotic changes in spine can be ameliorated by every 48h administration of PTH in aged male rats. Eight-month-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were sham operated (n=24) or orchiectomized (Orx, n=36) and maintained untreated over 12 weeks. Thereafter, both tibia underwent transverse metaphyseal osteotomy (Komrakova et al. 2011, J Endocrinol; 209:9-19) and rats were divided into 5 groups treated s.c. as follows: 1) sham vehicle; 2) sham PTH every 24h (PTH/24h); 3) Orx vehicle; 4) Orx PTH/24h; 5) Orx PTH every 48h (PTH/48h). PTH dosage was 40 �g/kg BW per injection. After 5 weeks, lumbar vertebral bodies were used in computed tomographical, biomechanical, histomorphological, ashing and gene expression analyses. Cortical and trabecular densities, biomechanical properties, serum osteocalcin level increased significantly after PTH treatments in all groups (yield load, sham: 232+17N, sham PTH/24h: 376+12N, Orx: 239+16N, Orx PTH/24h: 324+31N, Orx PTH/48h: 297+17N). Bone inorganic weight enhanced after daily PTH application in Orx rats. Bone gene expression did not differ (P>0.05) among the groups. Both PTH administration regimes (24h and 48h) improved impaired bone structure in osteopenic rats. Every 48h application was less effective, however, it improved bone properties to the level observed in healthy (sham) rats. Considering limitation of daily treatments known in humans, these results may be useful for further clinical studies.","PeriodicalId":89634,"journal":{"name":"The Open bone journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"20-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68144561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Freezing on the Mechanical Properties of Bone","authors":"Bryan Kaye, C. Randall, Daniel J Walsh, P. Hansma","doi":"10.2174/1876525401204010014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1876525401204010014","url":null,"abstract":"The serious health risks posed by bone fractures create a growing need for accurately diagnosing fracture risk. The Reference Point Indentation instrument (RPI) directly measures key mechanical properties in vivo to assess bone fracturability. There is a wealth of information that could be obtained from measuring cryopreserved bone samples with the RPI. Since it is unknown how freezing affects these key mechanical properties, measuring a cryopreserved sample gives no indication of the sample's original fracturability. Although there is research on how freezing affects the various mechanical properties of bone, this is the first paper to show how freezing effects the RPI's measurement of fracturability. Bovine femur and human tibia were tested using the RPI before freezing (-20°C, up to 20 days) and after thawing. The effect of freeze-thaw cycles varied depending on the type of the bone, but in most cases, was not measureable. When degradation did occur, the effect of freezing on the mechanical properties was smaller than the natural variation of those properties across a sample before freezing. Degradation of the mechanical properties, as measured by the RPI, was always found to be 15% or less. Subsequent freeze-thaw cycles had no effect on further degradation of the bone samples. In cases where degradation occurred, the effect from the twenty-day duration of freezing was negligible compared to the effects from phase-change. Furthermore, significant evidence was found supporting the theory that freezing degrades the organic components of the extracellular matrix.","PeriodicalId":89634,"journal":{"name":"The Open bone journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"14-19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68145051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Mina, S. Alibhai, A. Matthew, Crissa L. Guglietti, Shalini H Moonsammy, J. Trachtenberg, P. Ritvo
{"title":"Physical Exercise for Secondary Osteoporosis","authors":"D. Mina, S. Alibhai, A. Matthew, Crissa L. Guglietti, Shalini H Moonsammy, J. Trachtenberg, P. Ritvo","doi":"10.2174/1876525401204010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1876525401204010001","url":null,"abstract":"Bone loss caused by an underlying medical illness or associated treatment is often termed secondary osteoporosis and is a growing concern for a variety of patients. Exercise has demonstrated efficacy in maintaining bone health for individuals with age-related osteoporosis and its application to other clinical populations with specific interest in preserving bones is being increasingly explored. While there are many causes of secondary osteoporosis, only a few clinical populations have been studied for the role of exercise as a non-pharmacologic approach to bone preservation. This article briefly reviews secondary osteoporosis and the effect of exercise on bone health, while highlighting the current exercise intervention literature on bone outcomes for several clinical populations.","PeriodicalId":89634,"journal":{"name":"The Open bone journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68145039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leslie C Costello, Renty B Franklin, Mark A Reynolds, Meena Chellaiah
{"title":"The Important Role of Osteoblasts and Citrate Production in Bone Formation: \"Osteoblast Citration\" as a New Concept for an Old Relationship.","authors":"Leslie C Costello, Renty B Franklin, Mark A Reynolds, Meena Chellaiah","doi":"10.2174/1876525401204010027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1876525401204010027","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It has been known for about seventy years that bone, in all vertebrates, contains uniquely high citrate levels. However, the role of citrate, its source, its regulation, and its implication in normal bone formation and in bone disorders have remained largely unknown. For the past thirty-five years, the relationship of citrate in bone has been a neglected area of attention and research. It has recently been discovered that citrate is critical for the structure of the apatite nanocrystal, and is required to impart the important properties of bone such as its stability, strength, and resistance to fracture. This brings to focus the need for a renewed interest and research into the relationships of citrate in bone formation. A most fundamental question that must be resolved is \"What is the source of citrate in bone?\". This presentation provides a historical review of the early research to the present status of citrate implications in bone. This leads to a new concept of the role of osteoblasts as specialized citrate producing cells that provide the source of citrate in bone formation; i.e. the \"osteoblast citration\" process. This also brings into focus a new insight into the role of zinc in bone in relation to osteoblast citrate production. The genetic/hormonal/metabolic relationships of \"net citrate production\" are described. The intent of this presentation is to provide the background for a new perspective of the important implications of osteoblasts and citrate in bone formation; which, hopefully, will stimulate a renewed interest and essential research.</p>","PeriodicalId":89634,"journal":{"name":"The Open bone journal","volume":"4 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2174/1876525401204010027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31835730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Detraining on Bone","authors":"A. Nordström, P. Nordström","doi":"10.2174/1876525401103010022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1876525401103010022","url":null,"abstract":"Physical activity has been recommended for the treatment and even prevention of osteoporosis. This is because physical activity can potentially increase bone mass and strength in the early years of life and reduce the risk of falling in older populations. However, a key question that remains to be answered is whether a high bone mineral density (BMD) resulting from physical activity is sustained despite decreased activity. The aim of this review is to describe the effects of decreased levels of physical activity on bone. A comprehensive search of Medline, EMBASE, and the Cochrane controlled trials register was conducted. Previous studies have reported that benefits from prior physical activity seem to be eroded after cessation of this activity, at least for bone sites that are rich in trabecular bone such as the clinically important proximal femur. In bone sites rich in cortical bone, there appeared to be long-term beneficial effects of physical activity. In conclusion, bone gain through physical activity is lost in bone sites rich in trabecular bone if the activity is not maintained. However, current knowledge is limited and further prospective research into the effect of detraining is recommended.","PeriodicalId":89634,"journal":{"name":"The Open bone journal","volume":"3 1","pages":"22-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68144999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}