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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION
卷 116, 期 5, 页码 1230-1242出版社
AMER SOC CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC
DOI: 10.1172/JCI26772
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Current therapies for delayed- or nonunion bone fractures are stiff largely ineffective. Previous studies indicated that the VEGF homolog placental growth factor (PIGF) has a more significant role in disease than in health. Therefore we investigated the role of PlGF in a model of semistabilized bone fracture healing. Fracture repair in mice lacking PlGF was impaired and characterized by a massive accumulation of cartilage in the callus, reminiscent of delayed- or nonunion fractures. PlGF was required for the early recruitment of inflammatory cells and the vascularization of the fracture wound. Interestingly, however, PlGF also played a role in the subsequent stages of the repair process. Indeed in vivo and in vitro findings indicated that PlGF induced the proliferation and osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal progenitors and stimulated cartilage turnover by particular MMPs. Later in the process, PIGF was required for the remodeling of the newly formed bone by stimulating osteoclast differentiation. As PIGF expression was increased throughout the process of bone repair and all the important cell types involved expressed its receptor VEGFR-1, the present data suggest that PlGF is required for mediating and coordinating the key aspects of fracture repair. Therefore PlGF may potentially offer therapeutic advantages for fracture repair.
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