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Insulin-dependent type 1 diabetes mellitus (IDDM) has been shown to alter the properties of bone and to impair fracture-healing in both humans and animals. The objective of this study was to examine changes in the histomorphometric and mechanical parameters of bone and remodeling during bone-defect healing, depending on the diabetic metabolic state in spontaneously diabetic BB/O(ttawa)K(arlsburg) rats, a rat strain that represents a close homology to IDDM in humans.
A standardized bone-defect model was chosen and based on blood-glucose values at the time of surgery (mg%), postoperative blood-glucose course (mg%), and postoperative insulin requirements (IU/kg). A total of 120 spontaneously diabetic BB/OK rats were divided into groups with a well-compensated (n = 60; 169 ± 102 mg%; 230 ± 126 mg%; and 2.2 ± 1.1 IU/kg) or poorly compensated (n = 60; 380 ± 159 mg%; 359 ± 89 mg%; and 5.4 ± 1.1 IU/kg) metabolic state. Sixty LEW.1A rats served as the normoglycemic controls (93 ± 19 mg%). Fifteen animals from each group were killed on postoperative days 7, 14, 24, and 42, and specimens were processed undecalcified for quantitative bone histomorphometry and for biomechanical testing.
Our study showed in terms of bone histomorphometry, within the first 14 days, that severe mineralization disorders occurred exclusively in the rats with a poorly compensated diabetic metabolic state with a highly significant (P < 0.001) or significant (P < 0.01) decrease of all fluorochrome-based parameters of mineralization, apposition, formation and timing of mineralization, as well as significantly decreased values of biomechanical properties (P < 0.05) in comparison to the spontaneously diabetic rats with a well-compensated metabolic state and to the control rats.
Bone-defect healing in spontaneously diabetic BB/OK rats is retarded exclusively in a poorly compensated diabetic metabolic state. This study suggests that strictly controlled insulin treatment resulting in a well-compensated diabetic metabolic state will ameliorate the impaired early and late parameters of IDDM bone-defect healing.
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Follak, N., Klöting, I., Wolf, E. et al. Improving Metabolic Control Reverses the Histomorphometric and Biomechanical Abnormalities of an Experimentally Induced Bone Defect in Spontaneously Diabetic Rats. Calcif Tissue Int 74, 551–560 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00223-003-0069-6
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