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Impaired bone defect and fracture healing in dystrophin/utrophin double-knockout mice and the mechanism


ABSTRACT: This study investigated the role of muscle damage in bone defect healing using skull and tibial double-defect and tibial fracture models in dystrophin-/-/Utrophin-/- double-knockout (dKO-Hom) mice. The skull and tibia bone defect and fracture healing was monitored using micro-CT, histology, immuohistochemistry and quantitative PCR. We found the skull defect healing is not impaired while the tibial defect healing was delayed at day 7 in the dKO-Hom group compared to wild-type (WT) group as revealed by micro-CT. Mechanistically, the number of osteoclasts and osteoblasts significantly decreased in the defect area in dKO-Hom group compared to WT group on day 21. DKO-Hom mice showed higher mortality after fracture (6/12) and significantly impaired fracture healing compared to the other groups as revealed by the micro-CT parameters of the calluses. Histology showed higher osteoclast number in the calluses of dKO-Hom mice than other groups. Furthermore, dKO-Hom mice showed down-regulation of 15-Pgdh, Il-4, Bmp7, and Bmp9 at 10 days after tibia fracture and BMP6 and 7 in the muscle. In conclusion, the long bone defect and fracture healing are impaired in dKO-Hom mice which demonstrated significantly muscle sarcopenia and related with disturbance of osteoclastogenesis and osteoblastogenesis. The impaired tibial fracture healing was associated with down-regulation of several genes in the muscle.

SUBMITTER: Gao X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7540103 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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