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ArticlePloS one2019

Hypoxia and mesenchymal stromal cells as key drivers of initial fracture healing in an equine in vitro fracture hematoma model.

Moritz Pfeiffenberger, Janika Bartsch, Paula Hoff, Igor Ponomarev, Dirk Barnewitz, Christa Thöne-Reineke, Frank Buttgereit, Timo Gaber, Annemarie Lang

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Article in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Moritz PfeiffenbergerDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Janika BartschDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Paula HoffDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Igor PonomarevResearch Center of Medical Technology and Biotechnology, Bad Langensalza, Germany.
Dirk BarnewitzResearch Center of Medical Technology and Biotechnology, Bad Langensalza, Germany.
Christa Thöne-ReinekeInstitute of Animal Welfare, Animal Behavior and Laboratory Animal Science, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Frank ButtgereitDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Timo GaberDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.
Annemarie LangDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6539-9476
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DEResearch Centre of Medical Technology and Biotechnology · DEFreie Universität Berlin · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fractures in horses-whether simple fractures with just one clean break, or incomplete greenstick with stress fractures, or complications such as shattered bones can all be either minimal or even catastrophic. Thus, improvement in fracture healing is a hallmark in equine orthopedics. The fracture healing process implements a complex sequence of events including the initial inflammatory phase removing damaged tissue, re-establishment of vessels and mesenchymal stromal cells, a soft and hard callus phase closing the fracture gap as well as the remodeling phase shaping the bone to a scar-free tissue. Detailed knowledge on processes in equine fracture healing in general and on the initial phase in particular is apparently very limited. Therefore, we generated equine in vitro fracture hematoma models (FH models) to study time-dependent changes in cell composition and RNA-expression for the most prominent cells in the FH model (immune cells, mesenchymal stromal cells) under conditions most closely adapted to the in vivo situation (hypoxia) by using flow cytometry and qPCR. In order to analyze the impact of mesenchymal stromal cells in greater detail, we also incubated blood clots without the addition of mesenchymal stromal cells under the same conditions as a control. We observed a superior survival capacity of mesenchymal stromal cells over immune cells within our FH model maintained under hypoxia. Furthermore, we demonstrate an upregulation of relevant angiogenic, osteogenic and hypoxia-induced markers within 48 h, a time well-known to be crucial for proper fracture healing.

Indexed as

Fracture HealingModels, BiologicalAnimalsBiomarkersBiopsyCell SurvivalFractures, BoneHematomaHorsesHypoxiaMesenchymal Stem CellsNeovascularization, PhysiologicOsteogenesisOxygenRNA, MessengerTime FactorsBiomarkersOxygenRNA, Messenger

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PMID30947253
PMCPMC6449067
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