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K H Włodarski

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PubMed2004

Non-adherent bone marrow cells are a rich source of cells forming bone in vivo.

Syngeneic, allogeneic and xenogeneic (rat) freshly isolated bone marow cells + stromal cell cultures maintained in vitro for 10-30 days, as well as non-adherent cells removed from these cultures on 3rd-4th day were injected into the kidney parenchyma of mice, immunosuppressed with hydrocortisone. In syngeneic grafts the immunosuppression was omitted. In all transplant systems bone tissue was formed inside the kidney with 20% to 32% variation. Bone produced by allogeneic and xenogeneic cells is subject to rejection when immunosuppression ceases, as the bone formed is of donor origin. The "floating" cells, regardless of the transplant system, normally discarded during media replacement, turned out to be efficient bone producers. This notion is of practical implication when bone marrow cells are used for bone healing.

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PubMed2002

Evaluation of locally induced osteoarthritis by the complete and incomplete Freund's adjuvant in mice. The application of DEXA measurements.

The inflammatory reactions elicited in mice by subcutaneous injections of IFA and CFA had opposite effects when tested on local metacarpal shank bones and the distal epiphysis of shank bones. Although the intensity of the immune reactions was similar, IFA induced bone loss, while CFA induced bone formation, which was mostly periosteal in nature. BMC and BMD measurements were assessed by means of high resolution DEXA, using a hologic 4500A bone scanner with software dedicated for the analysis of small animal bones. DEXA scans were evaluated and related to histological and bone ash content analyses. The morphological and quantitative ash weight analyses of bones exposed to the adjuvants were consistent with DEXA bone density scan measurements.

Absorptiometry, Photon↗
PubMed1996

Human urinary bladder-carcinoma cells are non-osteoinductive.

Small pieces (ca. 2-3 x 3-5 mm) of the urinary-tract mucosa from noninvasive papillary transitional-cell carcinomas of the bladder (ca. urotheliale papillare, n = 33), invasive transitional-cell carcinomas of the bladder (ca. urotheliale papillare infiltrans, n = 6, papillary transitional-cell carcinomas of the bladder with squamous metaplasia (ca. urotheliale papillare cum metaplasia planoepitheliale, n = 4), transitional-cell carcinomas in situ (ca. urotheliale in situ, n = 2), and squamous-cell carcinomas of the bladder (ca. planoepitheliale, n = 2) were grafted intramuscularly into cortisone-immunosuppressed mice to test the ability of transformed transitional epithelium to induce heterotopic osteogenesis. Altogether, 156 implants from 47 cases of urinary bladder carcinoma were performed. Histological examination of implants, excised 10-17 days later, revealed relatively good survival of the grafted epithelium, which had proliferated and, in some cases, formed cysts and islands but failed to induce heterotopic osteogenesis in the surrounding host tissues. In nine implants prepared from four cases (noninvasive papillary transitional-cell carcinoma of the bladder and invasive papillary transitional-cell carcinoma of the bladder, two cases each) a small amount of cartilage and/or bone was found in the stroma of grafted tissue. The rarity of this phenomenon--together with the observation that implants of normal human urinary-tract mucosa have never induced the formation of cartilage/bone, whereas in a similar system, dog or guinea-pig grafts are osteogenic--suggests that the cartilage/bone present in the stroma of implanted cancers is the result of metaplasia of the stroma of the neoplasm and not the product of any osteoinductive potency of human urothelium.

Adrenal Cortex Hormones↗
PubMed1995

Species differences in uroepithelium-induced bone development: observations on transplants of human uroepithelium in cortisone-treated mice.

Specimens (2-3 x 3-5 mm) of human urinary tract mucosa from bladder (67 cases), ureter and renal pelvis (35 cases) were implanted intramuscularly into cortisone-treated mice in order to elucidate whether human urothelium has the potency to induce osteogenesis. Although xenogeneic epithelium survived up to 14 days after implantation, in none of the 300 implants performed was a bone or cartilage induction observed. Implantation of urinary bladder mucosa from guinea pig and dog resulted in a heterotopic bone and cartilage formation in the graft's vicinity in 28 of 39 cases. The survival of animal transitional epithelium was similar to that of human. It is concluded that human transitional epithelium does not possess osteoinductive potency. Some clinical data pointing to a link between heterotopic osteogenesis and surgical intervention on urinary tract have been reconsidered and explained by the authors' own hypothesis. In addition, data presented in this paper indicate that one should be very careful when attempting to transmit results performed on dog urinary tract to humans.

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PubMed1995

In vivo exposure to sodium fluoride does not modify the yield of viral tumour-induced periosteal bone nor of heterotopic bone induced by human tumour KB cells in mice.

In mice local or systemic administration of fluoride (5-25 mg NaF/kg body weight) during the proliferative phase of bone formation (up to 20 days) has no effect on the yield of bone formed either by local stimulation of periosteal membrane by Moloney sarcoma virus-induced tumour or on bone induced heterotopically by human KB cells. The lack of stimulatory activity of fluoride on rapidly induced osteogenesis in mice is in agreement with recent reports which show that fluoride is not a potent mitogen for human osteoblasts grown in vitro.

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PubMed1992

Osteoblastic and chondroblastic response to a variety of locally administered immunomodulators in mice.

Administration into mouse shank muscles of various immunomodulators which directly or indirectly activate lymphocytes (BCG, Con A, Carrageenan IV, Dextran, PHA-M, PWM, lipopolysaccharides from Corynebacterium) have a dual effect on local bones, stimulating both periosteal bone formation and bone resorption, the former being dominant. These effects vary in frequency and magnitude, the most potent stimulation of periosteal bone formation being observed after administration of Con A and BCG in complete Freund adjuvant. BCG was also a strong inducer of bone resorption in vivo. Concanavalin A and, to a lesser degree, other immunomodulators applied, when administered subcutaneously into the pinna, also have induced perichondrial chondrogenesis. These novel effects of immunodulators could be applied in the field of skeletal tissues regeneration.

Adjuvants, Immunologic↗
PubMed1992

Association of giant multinucleated cells with deterioration of osteoinductive potency of bone matrix.

A thirty four intramuscular implants of rat decalcified bone matrix into mice and rats were histologically inspected in order to find out if there is an inverse correlation between the induction of multinucleated giant cell formation and the bone induction activity. It was found that the presence of multinucleated giant cells which avidly resorbed the implanted matrix was almost always combined with the lack of local bone induction. In contrast, the specimens exhibiting intense bone induction were devoided of multinucleated giant cells. Our observation confirm the opinion expressed by Walters and Schneider that multinucleated giant cells induced by mineralized bone chips are not osteoclasts but a type of inflammatory cells, analogous if not identical to the "foreign body cells". It is postulated that formation of multinucleated giant cells is a morphological expression of hyperactivity of mononuclear phagocytes. Hyperactive multinucleated giant cells avidly resorb bone matrix and degrade bone inducing substance(s) like skeletal growth factor and/or bone morphogenetic peptides resulting in the deterioration or lack of bone induction.

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PubMed1991

Bone histogenesis mediated by nonosteogenic cells.

Intramuscular implantation of several established, nonfibroblastic epithelial cell lines of various origin causes endochondral ossification at the site of cell graft. Heterotopically-induced bone is also a site of myelopoiesis. Myelohistograms of ectopic bone marrow do not differ substantially from that of marrow present in orthotopic (skeletal) bones. Heterotopically-induced bones are not covered by a periosteal membrane with a functioning cambium layer. The nature of the bone-inducing principle of epithelial cells is not known as yet, although it was established that cells able to induce heterotopic bone formation are characterized by a high alkaline-phosphatase activity and have an epithelial status. Cells responding to the osteoinducing principle are distributed among skeletal muscles and are absent in the peritoneal cavity or in the kidney parenchyma. Periosteal membranes of skeletal bones are activated by a variety of agents (Moloney sarcoma virus-induced tumors, numerous nonvirus-induced neoplasms, T-lymphocyte mitogens, and activated lymphocytes) to proliferate and lay down new bone. The same agents can also activate in vivo perichondral membranes. It is theorized that cells involved in antitumor reaction produce a chondroblast/osteoblast activating factor(s), in addition to the osteoclast-activating one.

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PubMed1990

Alkaline and acid phosphatase activity in murine femoral bone marrow following X-irradiation, or X-irradiation and repopulation with syngenic or allogeneic bone marrow or marrow stroma cells.

The activity of alkaline and acid phosphatases in the bone marrow from the femoral cavity was investigated in the following groups of mice: (1) normal (non-irradiated); (2) irradiated with 600 R; (3) irradiated and repopulated with syngeneic bone marrow; (4) irradiated and repopulated with syngeneic marrow stroma; (5) non-irradiated, infused with allogeneic bone marrow (host versus graft reaction, HvG); (6) irradiated and repopulated with allogeneic bone marrow (graft versus host reaction, GvH). In addition, the activity of alkaline and acid phosphatases was examined in bone marrow stromal cultures. In irradiated animals the activity of both enzymes was lower than in non-irradiated ones, repopulation with syngeneic bone marrow restoring it to normal. Repopulation with allogeneic marrow (GvH) resulted in a very deep reduction of alkaline, but not acid, phosphatase. It is postulated that the decrease in bone marrow alkaline phosphatase activity can be a sensitive test for the early GvH reaction, preceding such parameters as splenomegaly. Marrow stroma cultured in vitro also showed very low alkaline phosphatase activity.

Acid Phosphatase↗
PubMed1990

Properties and origin of osteoblasts.

Osteoblastic and chondroblastic (i.e., osteogenic) cells belong to the stromal cell system, which is associated with bone marrow, and bone and is separate from the hematopoietic stem-cell system. Stromal stem cells are capable of producing reticular, fibroblastic, osteogenic, and adipose stromal lines. Marrow-derived osteogenic cells are a component of marrow stroma, which in vitro form fibroblastic-type colonies. These colonies are a heterogeneous population with varying enzymatic expressions and potencies that differentiate into fibroblastic, reticular, adipocytic, and osteogenic populations. It is postulated that these colonies are a component of the stem- and progenitor cell populations. Progenitors of osteogenic cells are widely distributed in the extraskeletal organs. On contact with an adequate inductor, they differentiate into chondro- and/or osteoblasts, thus producing ectopic (i.e., induced) cartilage and/or bone. Such osteoprogenitor cells were termed inducible osteoprogenitor cells, in contrast to the determined osteoprogenitor cells, which are present in the bone marrow stroma and produce bone spontaneously. To the class of determined osteoprogenitors also belong endosteal cells, periosteal cells, and osteoblastic established cell lines. There is no evidence of the presence of osteogenic cells in the blood and peritoneal fluid. The concept of mesenchymal cells as an osteoblastic precursor in adult organisms is open to question.

Cartilage↗
PubMed1989

Biochemical parameters of osteogenesis in epiphysis of mice irradiated and repopulated with syngeneic bone marrow.

Whole-body irradiation of BALB/cann mice with 600 R of gamma rays produces a profound atrophy of the spleen and diminishes alkaline phosphatase activity in the homogenates of epiphysis. The acid phosphatase activity remains unchanged until day 10, then slightly declines. Incorporation of 45Ca into epiphysis is practically not impaired following irradiation. Repopulation of irradiated animals with 1-1.5 million nucleated syngeneic bone marrow cells restores spleen weight within 6 days, but until day 11 the activity of alkaline phosphatase of epiphysis remains lower. Full recovery of enzyme activities was not observed until day 14, but on day 28 these activities returned to the normal level. Histological inspection did not reveal a full recovery of bone marrow in the epiphysis of irradiated animals until day 14, possibly because of trapping of the vast majority of stem cells by the spleen and liver. On day 28, however, epiphyses were completely filled with the bone marrow.

Acid Phosphatase↗
PubMed1989

Normal and heterotopic periosteum.

Normal periosteum is an osteoprogenitor cell-containing bone envelope, which can be activated to proliferate by trauma, retroviruses, tumors, and lymphocyte mitogens. Activated periosteum produces cartilage and bone, and is colonized by bone-resorbing cells. The osteogenic activity of periosteum is maintained in heterotopic sites and in vitro. Ectopic bone, however, is colonized by bone marrow precursor cells but does not develop a true periosteum. The absence of true periosteal envelope in the heterotopically induced bone may be the major, if not the only, difference between heterotopic and orthotopic bone deposits.

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PubMed1988

Whole body X-irradiation and repopulation with syngeneic bone marrow have no significant effect on basophils and mast cell compartment of murine lymph nodes.

In mice the atrophy of lymph nodes following a whole body X-irradiation with a dose of 800 R is not followed by a depletion of their basophils and mast cells content. Repopulation of irradiated mice with syngeneic bone marrow cells has no significant effect on the basophils and mast cells number in the popliteal lymph nodes.

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PubMed1987

Mast cells and basophils in murine lymph nodes stimulated by B-cell mitogen.

The total number of mast cells and basophilic granulocytes in lymph nodes activated in vivo by a B-cell mitogen (formaldehyde-fixed S. paratyphi B) remains unchanged in spite of a significant enlargement and cellularity of the lymph nodes. This is in contrast to the previous finding showing that T-cell mitogens reduce the number of granular cells in the lymph nodes.

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