Tissue and cellular morphological changes in growth plate explants under compression

Journal of Biomechanics
Samira AminiIsabelle Villemure

Abstract

The mechanisms by which mechanical loading may alter bone development within growth plates are still poorly understood. However, several growth plate cell or tissue morphological parameters are associated with both normal and mechanically modulated bone growth rates. The aim of this study was to quantify in situ the three-dimensional morphology of growth plate explants under compression at both cell and tissue levels. Growth plates were dissected from ulnae of immature swine and tested under 15% compressive strain. Confocal microscopy was used to image fluorescently labeled chondrocytes in the three growth plate zones before and after compression. Quantitative morphological analyses at both cell (volume, surface area, sphericity, minor/major radii) and tissue (cell/matrix volume ratio) levels were performed. Greater chondrocyte bulk strains (volume decrease normalized to the initial cell volume) were found in the proliferative (35.4%) and hypertrophic (41.7%) zones, with lower chondrocyte bulk strains (24.7%) in the reserve zone. Following compression, the cell/matrix volume ratio decreased in the reserve and hypertrophic zones by 24.3% and 22.6%, respectively, whereas it increased by 35.9% in the proliferative zone. The 15% st...Continue Reading

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