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OBJECTIVE: Wear particle induced bone resorption is thought to be one of the mechanisms that contribute to implant loosening. It has previously been shown that macrophages, in response to polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) particles, differentiate into bone resorbing osteoclasts, and that this process is inhibited by a bisphosphonate, etidronate (EHDP). The aim of this study was to determine whether incorporating EHDP in bone cement could reduce PMMA associated bone resorption. METHODS: Two concentrations of EHDP were mixed with PMMA monomer before polymerisation. Particles of PMMA (1-10 microns) were generated then added to mouse monocytes cocultured with UMR106 rat osteoblast-like cells and the extent of osteoclast differentiation was determined by assessing the extent of tartrate resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP) staining and measuring the amount of lacunar bone resorption. RESULTS: The addition of PMMA to monocyte-UMR106 cocultures resulted in a marked increase in the number of TRAP positive osteoclast-like cells and a significant increase in the number of lacunar resorption pits compared with control cultures to which no particles had been added. After the addition of particles of PMMA + 20 mg EHDP, significantly fewer lacunar pits (p = 0.00006) and fewer TRAP positive cells were noted compared with cocultures containing PMMA particles alone. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that by mixing a bisphosphonate with bone cement, it is possible to inhibit PMMA particle induced bone resorption. This bisphosphonate inhibition of PMMA biomaterial wear particle containing macrophage-osteoclast differentiation and bone resorption may provide a possible therapeutic strategy to prevent or to control the osteolysis of aseptic loosening.

Original publication

DOI

10.1136/ard.57.10.614

Type

Journal article

Journal

Ann rheum dis

Publication Date

10/1998

Volume

57

Pages

614 - 618

Keywords

Animals, Bone Cements, Bone Resorption, Bone and Bones, Cell Culture Techniques, Cell Differentiation, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Etidronic Acid, Female, Humans, Immunoenzyme Techniques, Mice, Microscopy, Electron, Scanning, Osteoclasts, Polymethyl Methacrylate, Rats