title: Increased cartilage and bone formation in spontaneously hypercholesterolemic rats.
abstract: Spontaneously hypercholesterolemic (SHC) rats are known to exhibit accelerated bone resorption. We compared endochondral bone formation induced by implantation of demineralized bone matrix (DBM) to 4-week-old SHC rats with that of age-matched Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats. When DBM prepared from adult SD rats was implanted, the cartilageous area enlarged, and C-propeptide of type II procollagen content on day 7 was higher in SHC rats. Alkaline phosphatase activity and calcium content on day 12 and tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase activity on day 19 were higher in SHC rats. These results suggest active chondrogenesis, with a subsequent increase in osteogenesis, and stimulated osteoclastic bone resorption in SHC rats. When DBM from 10-week-old SHC rats was implanted into SD or SHC rats, the levels of bone forming parameters on day 12 were reduced to one-third, suggesting inhibiting factor(s) for bone induction in bone matrix of SHC rats. In contrast, when DBM from 6-month-old SHC rats was implanted, although bone forming parameters in SD rats were comparable to the case of implantation of DBM from SD rats, the accelerated bone formation detected in SHC rats was blocked, indicating resistance to systemic bone inducing factor(s) of SHC rats in aged bone matrix. These results suggest that age-related decrease in responses to some systemic bone inducing factor may lead to the bone loss with advancing age.
authors.affiliation: Torii Nutrient-Stasis Project, ERATO, R & D Corp. of Japan, Yokohama.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Funaba
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Murata
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Murata
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abe
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Torii
mesh_terms: D000135:Acid Phosphatase / Q000378:metabolism; D000375:Aging; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D015519:Bone Density; D001846:Bone Development; D001857:Bone Matrix / Q000637:transplantation; D001862:Bone Resorption; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002356:Cartilage / Q000254:growth & development*; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007700:Kinetics; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000378:metabolism; D011347:Procollagen / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D011347:Procollagen; C093212:procollagen type II carboxy-terminal peptide; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase; D000135:Acid Phosphatase; D002118:Calcium