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Osteoclastic resorption of Ca-P biomaterials implanted in rabbit bone

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The nature of the multinucleated cells involved in the resorption processes occurring inside macroporous calcium-phosphate biomaterials grafted into rabbit bone was studied using light microscopy, histomorphometric analysis, enzymatic detection of tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) activity, scanning, and electron microscopy. Samples were taken at days 7, 14, and 21 after implantation. As early as day 7, osteogenesis and resorption were observed at the surface of the biomaterials, inside the macropores. Resorption of both newly formed bone and calcium-phosphate biomaterials was associated with two types of multinucleated cells. Giant multinucleated cells were found only at the surface of the biomaterials; they showed a large number of nuclei, were TRAP negative, developed no ruffled border, and contained numerous vacuoles with large accumulation of mineral crystals from the biomaterials. Osteoclasts exhibited TRAP positivity and well-defined ruffled border. They were observed at the surface of both newly formed bone and biomaterials, around the implant, and inside the macropores. In contact with the biomaterials, infoldings of their ruffled border were observed between the mineral crystals, deeply inside the microporosity. The microporosity of the biomaterials (i.e., the noncrystalline spaces inside the biomaterials) increased underneath this type of cell as compared with underneath giant cells or to the depth of the biomaterials. These observations demonstrate that macroporous calcium-phosphate biomaterials implanted in bone elicit osteogenesis and the recruitment of a double multinucleated cell population having resorbing activity: giant multinucleated cells that resorb biomaterials and osteoclasts that resorb newly formed bone and biomaterials.

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  1. Faculté de Médecine, Laboratoire d'Histologie-Embryologie, rue Haute de Reculée, 49045, Angers-Cedex, France

    Michel F. Baslé, Daniel Chappard, Florence Grizon & André Rebel

  2. Service Commun de Microscopie Electronique, Université d'Angers, France

    Michel F. Baslé & Robert Filmon

  3. Faculté de Chirurgie Dentaire, Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Tissus Calcifiés et les Biomatériaux, Nantes, France

    Joël Delecrin & Guy Daculsi

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Baslé, M.F., Chappard, D., Grizon, F. et al. Osteoclastic resorption of Ca-P biomaterials implanted in rabbit bone. Calcif Tissue Int 53, 348–356 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01351842

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