The replacement of the hyaline cartilage model by bone tissue during osseous development involves an extensive resorption of cartilage. The current study examines the role played by matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in cartilage resorption in the tibial epiphysis of 8 and 10 day old rats. The entry of cellular, highly vascularized channels requires the degradation of cartilage components. As a first step, aggrecan is cleaved by an unidentified MMP along the edges of the channel walls, as detected by an antiserum directed to a cleavage fragment retained in the tissue; the presence of an active MMP at the channel edge is confirmed by the binding of a recombinant MMP inhibitor, TIMP-2. Second, using histozymography, the collagen component of cartilage is degraded by another MMP, identified as gelatinase B by inhibition studies, at similar channel sites. Thus, two proteinases combine their efforts to produce the resorption associated with channel invasion preceding the appearance of the secondary ossification center in the rat tibial epiphysis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.21535 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Davoli, Maria Antonietta. |
| Contributors | Lee, Eunice R. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Division of Surgical Research.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001652820, proquestno: MQ50748, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
Page generated in 0.0012 seconds