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ArticleiScience2023

The selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor reboxetine promotes late-stage fracture healing in mice.

Antonia Donat, Shan Jiang, Weixin Xie, Paul Richard Knapstein, Lilly-Charlotte Albertsen, Judith Luisa Kokot, Jan Sevecke, Ruben Augustin, Denise Jahn, Timur Alexander Yorgan and 4 more

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Article in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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14 authors.

Antonia DonatDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Shan JiangDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Weixin XieDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Paul Richard KnapsteinDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Lilly-Charlotte AlbertsenDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Judith Luisa KokotDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Jan SeveckeDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Ruben AugustinDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Denise JahnCenter for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Timur Alexander YorganDepartment of Osteology and Biomechanics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Karl-Heinz FroschDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Serafeim TsitsilonisCenter for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany.
Anke BaranowskyDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.
Johannes KellerDepartment of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Impaired fracture healing is of high clinical relevance, as up to 15% of patients with long-bone fractures display non-unions. Fracture patients also include individuals treated with selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI). As SNRI were previously shown to negatively affect bone homeostasis, it remained unclear whether patients with SNRI are at risk of impaired bone healing. Here, we show that daily treatment with the SNRI reboxetine reduces trabecular bone mass in the spine but increases cortical thickness and osteoblast numbers in the femoral midshaft. Most importantly, reboxetine does not impair bone regeneration in a standardized murine fracture model, and even improves callus bridging and biomechanical stability at late healing stages. In sum, reboxetine affects bone remodeling in a site-specific manner. Treatment does not interfere with the early and intermediate stages of bone regeneration and improves healing outcomes of the late-stage fracture callus in mice.

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