Fracture healing requires a series of events including inflammatory response and callus formation, callus remodeling and bone healing. Fracture healing is a complex process, there are several overlapping phases , including inflammation , cartilage formation and bone remodeling, there are many internal or external factors could impact on fracture healing, leading to delayed bone healing or non healing. The global androgen receptor knockout (GARKO) mice has been know to reduce bone mass in endochondral bone and osteoblast mineralization, but the impact for callus formation in fracture healing is still unclear. The goals of study is to investigate the role of androgen and androgen receptor in wild-type (WT) mice and GARKO mice after fracture healing during callus formation and bone mineralization and bone remodeling. Therefore, long-term animal experiments observed by micro-computed tomography to study the roles of androgen and androgen receptor on the process and mechanisms of fracture healing is necessary. We applied in vivo micro-computer tomography (Micro-CT) to build up the three-dimensional model images at different time points for wild-type mice and GARKO mice after fracture healing and observe the bone healing process of micro-structure of the development of callus during fracture healing. The callus tissue morphology observed by histological staining to study the proportion and position of collagen, fibrous tissue and bone. The results show that the healing of WT mice is better than GARKO mice. GARKO mice develop smaller callus size and less bone volume and show delayed healing. In general, orchiectomy (ORX) decreases callus size in WT mice but not in GARKO mice. However, the healing rate of elderly GARKO mice is not obvious in comparison with young GARKO mice. Together, our study demonstrated that the androgen and androgen receptor regulate fracture healing and play an important role in bone repair and healing. Our mouse model may be used for the therapeutic drug screening of bone fractures caused by osteoporosis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0722111-113546 |
| Date | 22 July 2011 |
| Creators | Lin, Ching-chen |
| Contributors | Cho, Chung-Lung, Kuo, Yur-Ren, Cheng, Jiin-Tsuey, Kang, Hong-Yo |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0722111-113546 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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