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PLoS One ; 13(1): e0190901, 2018.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29304080

RESUMO

A majority of patients with orofacial cleft deformity requires cleft repair through a bone graft. However, elevated amount of bone resorption and subsequent bone graft failure remains a significant clinical challenge. Bisphosphonates (BPs), a class of anti-resorptive drugs, may offer great promise in enhancing the clinical success of bone grafting. In this study, we compared the effects of systemic and local delivery of BPs in an intraoral bone graft model in rats. We randomly divided 34 female 20-week-old Fischer F344 Inbred rats into four groups to repair an intraoral critical-sized defect (CSD): (1) Control: CSD without graft (n = 4); (2) Graft/Saline: bone graft with systemic administration of saline 1 week post-operatively (n = 10); (3) Graft/Systemic: bone graft with systemic administration of zoledronic acid 1 week post-operatively (n = 10); and (4) Graft/Local: bone graft pre-treated with zoledronic acid (n = 10). At 6-weeks post-operatively, microCT volumetric analysis showed a significant increase in bone fraction volume (BV/TV) in the Graft/Systemic (62.99 ±14.31%) and Graft/Local (69.35 ±13.18%) groups compared to the Graft/Saline (39.18±10.18%). Similarly, histological analysis demonstrated a significant increase in bone volume in the Graft/Systemic (78.76 ±18.00%) and Graft/Local (89.95 ±4.93%) groups compared to the Graft/Saline (19.74±18.89%). The local delivery approach resulted in the clinical success of bone grafts, with reduced graft resorption and enhanced osteogenesis and bony integration with defect margins while avoiding the effects of BPs on peripheral osteoclastic function. In addition, local delivery of BPs may be superior to systemic delivery with its ease of procedure as it involves simple soaking of bone graft materials in BP solution prior to graft placement into the defect. This new approach may provide convenient and promising clinical applications towards effectively managing cleft patients.


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Transplante Ósseo , Fissura Palatina/cirurgia , Difosfonatos/administração & dosagem , Animais , Fissura Palatina/tratamento farmacológico , Feminino , Osteoclastos/efeitos dos fármacos , Ratos , Ratos Endogâmicos F344 , Microtomografia por Raio-X
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ASN Neuro ; 8(3)2016 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27364165

RESUMO

Genetic and environmental factors are both likely to contribute to neurodevelopmental disorders including schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorders, and major depressive disorders. Prior studies from our laboratory and others have demonstrated that the combinatorial effect of two factors-reduced expression of reelin protein and prenatal exposure to the organophosphate pesticide chlorpyrifos oxon-gives rise to acute biochemical effects and to morphological and behavioral phenotypes in adolescent and young adult mice. In the current study, we examine the consequences of these factors on reelin protein expression and neuronal cell morphology in adult mice. While the cell populations that express reelin in the adult brain appear unchanged in location and distribution, the levels of full length and cleaved reelin protein show persistent reductions following prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos oxon. Cell positioning and organization in the hippocampus and cerebellum are largely normal in animals with either reduced reelin expression or prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos oxon, but cellular complexity and dendritic spine organization is altered, with a skewed distribution of immature dendritic spines in adult animals. Paradoxically, combinatorial exposure to both factors appears to generate a rescue of the dendritic spine phenotypes, similar to the mitigation of behavioral and morphological changes observed in our prior study. Together, our observations support an interaction between reelin expression and chlorpyrifos oxon exposure that is not simply additive, suggesting a complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors in regulating brain morphology.


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Encéfalo/patologia , Moléculas de Adesão Celular Neuronais/metabolismo , Clorpirifos/análogos & derivados , Proteínas da Matriz Extracelular/metabolismo , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso/metabolismo , Neurônios/patologia , Praguicidas/toxicidade , Efeitos Tardios da Exposição Pré-Natal , Serina Endopeptidases/metabolismo , Fatores Etários , Animais , Encéfalo/efeitos dos fármacos , Encéfalo/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Proteínas de Transporte/metabolismo , Moléculas de Adesão Celular Neuronais/genética , Proteínas de Ciclo Celular/metabolismo , Clorpirifos/toxicidade , Deficiências do Desenvolvimento/induzido quimicamente , Deficiências do Desenvolvimento/genética , Sistemas de Liberação de Medicamentos , Proteínas da Matriz Extracelular/genética , Feminino , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento/efeitos dos fármacos , Regulação da Expressão Gênica no Desenvolvimento/genética , Glutamato Descarboxilase/genética , Glutamato Descarboxilase/metabolismo , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Camundongos Mutantes Neurológicos , Camundongos Transgênicos , Proteínas do Tecido Nervoso/genética , Neurônios/metabolismo , Neurônios/ultraestrutura , Gravidez , Efeitos Tardios da Exposição Pré-Natal/induzido quimicamente , Efeitos Tardios da Exposição Pré-Natal/genética , Efeitos Tardios da Exposição Pré-Natal/patologia , Proteína Reelina , Serina Endopeptidases/genética
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