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We examined the capacity of culture supernatants of macrophage-like cells exposed to titanium particles to influence bone formation and bone resorption, our aim being to elucidate the mechanism of implant loosening. A mouse macrophage-like cell line, J774, was exposed to titanium particles and the concentrations of prostaglandin E2, tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin-1α, and interleukin-6 in the supernatants were measured. Titanium particles stimulated the J774 cells to release tumor necrosis factor-α, whereas prostaglandin E2, interleukin-1α and interleukin-6 concentrations remained low. The bone resorptive activity of the supernatants was measured by determining 45Ca release from cultured pre-labeled newborn mouse calvariae. The culture supernatants of J774 cells exposed to titanium particles showed no significant difference in bone resorptive activity in mouse calvariae from that of culture supernatants of J774 cells not exposed to titanium particles. The bone-forming activity of the supernatant was evaluated by determining bone nodule formation and alkaline phosphatase activity in cultured mouse calvaria cells. The bone-forming activity of the supernatants exposed to titanium particles was significantly decreased compared with the supernatants of unexposed J774 cells. This inhibition was reversed by the addition of anti-tumor necrosis factor-α neutralizing antibody. We conclude that tumor necrosis factor-α released from J774 cells exposed to titanium particles played an important role in the inhibition of bone formation rather than in the stimulation of bone resorption.
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Received for publication on May 20, 1998; accepted on Aug. 28, 1998
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Tsutsui, T., Kawaguchi, H., Fujino, A. et al. Exposure of macrophage-like cells to titanium particles does not affect bone resorption, but inhibits bone formation. J Orthop Sci 4, 32–38 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007760050071
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s007760050071