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Calcium Phosphate Cement with BMP-2-loaded Gelatin Microspheres Enhances Bone Healing in Osteoporosis: A Pilot Study

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Abstract

Background

The capacity for bone healing reportedly is limited in osteoporosis with a less than ideal environment for healing of bone grafts. We therefore developed a composite bone substitute with rhBMP-2 loaded gelatin microsphere (GM) and calcium phosphate cement (CPC) to use in osteoporosis.

Questions/purposes

We asked whether (1) controlled release of rhBMP-2 could be improved in this composite bone substitute and (2) increasing factors released from the bone substitute could accelerate osteoporotic bone healing.

Methods

We soaked rhBMP-2/GM/CPC and rhBMP-2/CPC composites in simulated body fluid for 28 days and then determined the amount of rhBMP-2 released. Both composites were implanted in bone defects of osteoporotic goats and left in place for 45 and 140 days; the specimens then were evaluated mechanically (pushout test) and morphologically (CT scanning, histology).

Results

The in vitro study showed the new composite released more rhBMP-2 compared with rhBMP-2/CPC. CT showed the defects healed more quickly with new grafts. The bone mineralization rate was greater in rhBMP-2/GM/CPC than in rhBMP-2/CPC after 45 days of implantation and the pushout test was stronger after 45 and 140 days of implantation.

Conclusions

The new graft composite released more loaded factors and appeared to repair osteoporotic bone defects.

Clinical Relevance

These preliminary data suggest the new composite can be used as a bone substitute to accelerate healing of fractures and bone defects in osteoporosis.

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We thank Xiaodong Hao for help with the CT examination.

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  1. Orthopedic Trauma Institute of CPLA, Lanzhou General Hospital of CPLA, 333 Bing-he-nan Road, Lanzhou, 730050, Gansu Province, People’s Republic of China

    Meng Li MD, Xingyan Liu MD, Xudong Liu MD & Baofeng Ge MD

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One or more of the authors (ML, XL) have received funding from a research grant at the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (Grant Number of 06MA090) and a grant of Gansu Natural Science Foundation (Grant Number of 0710RJZA068).

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Li, M., Liu, X., Liu, X. et al. Calcium Phosphate Cement with BMP-2-loaded Gelatin Microspheres Enhances Bone Healing in Osteoporosis: A Pilot Study. Clin Orthop Relat Res 468, 1978–1985 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-010-1321-9

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