Journal article
Differences in matrix vesicle concentration among growth plate zones
Journal of orthopaedic research, Vol.5(2), pp.157-163
1987
DOI: 10.1002/jor.1100050202
PMID: 3572586
Abstract
We studied the proximal tibial growth plates of 15‐day‐old mice to determine if matrix vesicle concentration varies among growth plate zones or between the pericellular and territorial matrix compartment and the interterritorial matrix compartment. Growth plates were examined by electron microscopy and divided into five zones: reserve zone (RZ), upper proliferative zone (UPZ), lower proliferative zone (LPZ), upper hypertrophic zone (UHZ), and lower hypertrophic zone (LHZ) which included the calcifying zone. We measured the diameter and volume fraction of matrix vesicles and calculated their numerical density and volume per cell and number per cell in the pericellular and territorial matrix and in the interterritorial matrix of each zone. In the pericellular and territorial matrix compartment, the matrix vesicle concentration progressively decreased from the RZ to the LHZ. Changes in matrix vesicle concentration in the interterritorial matrix followed a different pattern. Between the RZ and the UPZ, matrix vesicle numerical density declined slightly and then increased to peak values in the LPZ and UHZ, followed by a decline between the UHZ and the LHZ. These changes in matrix vesicle concentration paralleled previously reported changes in intramitochondrial calcium content (8), suggesting that matrix vesicle production in growth plate may be related to intracellular calcium concentration. The existence of the maximum concentration of matrix vesicles in the LPZ and UHZ longitudinal septa which do not mineralize followed by a decline in matrix vesicle concentration in the LHZ longitudinal septa which mineralize suggests that a high concentration of matrix vesicles may be needed to prepare the matrix for mineralization or to initiate mineralization and that matrix vesicles are depleted during mineralization.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Differences in matrix vesicle concentration among growth plate zones
- Creators
- Joseph A BuckwalterDonald MowerJanice Schaeffer
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of orthopaedic research, Vol.5(2), pp.157-163
- DOI
- 10.1002/jor.1100050202
- PMID
- 3572586
- NLM abbreviation
- J Orthop Res
- ISSN
- 0736-0266
- eISSN
- 1554-527X
- Publisher
- Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company; Hoboken
- Number of pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1987
- Academic Unit
- Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Orthopedics and Rehabilitation; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984040570702771
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