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23-27 oktober 2006 Vitenskapelige forhandlinger Abstrakt nr: 228<br />

BONE DEGENERATION AND RECOVERY AFTER BISPHOSPHONATE<br />

TREATMENT OF OVARIECTOMIZED WISTAR RATS<br />

Huiskes R, Brouwers JEM, van Rietbergen B.<br />

Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept. Biomedical Engineering<br />

Den Dolech 2, WH 4.131, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands<br />

Introduction: Recently developed in vivo micro-CT scanners offer the possibility to study<br />

changes in bone microstructure in rats. Bisphosphonates are commonly used to treat<br />

osteoporosis. It is not well understood, however, what the influence of the time-point of<br />

treatment is. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the influence of early and late<br />

zoledronate treatment on the bone in ovariectomized rats using in vivo micro-CT.<br />

Methods and Materials: 29 female, Wistar rats were divided into an ovariectomy group<br />

(OVX, 5 rats), OVX and zoledronate (ZOL) at week 0 (8 rats), OVX and ZOL at week 8 (7<br />

rats) and a SHAM group (9 rats). CT-scans were made of the proximal tibia at weeks 0, 2, 4,<br />

8, 12 and 16, and bone structural parameters were determined in the metaphysis. An ANOVA<br />

and Bonferroni test compared the percentage changes at week 16 between all groups. A paired<br />

student t-test determined if bone microstructure significantly improved after ZOL treatment in<br />

the late ZOL group.<br />

Results: At week 16, all groups were significantly different from each other for BV/TV,<br />

Conn.D and Tb.N, except for the early ZOL and control groups, which were not significantly<br />

different for any structural parameter. After ZOL treatment at week 8, BV/TV, SMI, Tb.N and<br />

Tb.Th significantly improved in the late ZOL group.<br />

Discussion: Early ZOL treatment inhibited all bone microstructural changes seen after OVX.<br />

Late ZOL treatment significantly improved bone microstructure, although the structure did<br />

not recover to SHAM level. Early ZOL treatment was significantly better than late treatment,<br />

however, late treatment was still significantly more favorable than no treatment at all,<br />

indicating that the time-point of bisphosphonate treatment may be important.

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