The effects of high dose of parathyroid hormone on fetal osteoclasts and their precursors in vivo: an ultrastructural-cytochemical study

The Anatomical Record
H Isaki, H Hanaoka

Abstract

It is not well known how the immediate precursors of osteoclast develop into osteoclasts in the fetus. This ultrastructural-cytochemical study was designed to clarify the formation process of the osteoclasts and their increased activities in the fetal mouse limb buds after administration of high dose parathyroid hormone (PTH). Twenty-four or forty-eight hours after the high doses of PTH were injected into amniotic fluid of the pregnant C3H mice, the femoral limb buds of embryos were dissected out. Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) reactions were performed while preparing specimens for electron microscopy. Both control and PTH-given preosteoclasts and osteoclasts exhibited TRAP-positivities in dense bodies and vesicles. As effects of PTH, a binucleated preosteoclast of tandem fashion was observed. More osteoclastic hyperactivities were observed in the diaphyseal bone marrow. An osteoclast with a large cytoplasm exhibited two sets of clear zones and ruffled borders. Some osteoclasts demonstrated prominent amoeboid figures, while other osteoclasts developed large cytoplasmic vacuoles, which contained pieces of calcified chondroid bars. Our results revealed the progression of maturation from young preosteoclasts to osteocl...Continue Reading

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