Abstract
To demonstrate the role of an antibiotic containing bone substitute, native bone active proteins and muscle transforming into bone.
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Recurrent osteomyelitis was eradicated and filled with a gentamycin eluting bone substitute (Cerament™l G) consisting of sulphate and apatite phases and covered by a muscle flap.
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C2C12 muscle cells were seeded on the bone substitute in-vitro and their phenotype was studied.
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Another muscle cell line L6 was seeded with osteoblast conditioned medium containing bone active proteins and specific markers were studied for bone differentiation.
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A chronic, longstanding, fistulating osteomyelitis was operated with radical eradication and filling of the cavity with gentamycin eluting bone substitute. At one year, the patient had no leg pain and a healed wound. Significant bone was also seen in the overlaying muscle, at one month post-op disappearing after 6-months. Local delivery of gentamycin had a protective effect on bone formation.
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C2C12 cells seeded on the gentamycin eluting bone substitute depicted no difference in proliferation when compared to plain bone substitute and expressed 4 folds higher Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) compared to controls.
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C2C12 cells expressed proteins and genes coding for collagen type 1 (Col 1), osteocalcin (OCN), osteopontin (OPN) and bonesialoprotein (BSP).
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L6 cells cultured with osteoblast conditioned medium remained uninucleated and expressed osteoblastic proteins like Col 1, OCN, OPN and BSP.
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Bone substitute with gentamycin leads to differentiation of mesenchymal cells into bone in-vitro.
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Native bone active proteins from an osteoblast culture can induce differentiation of muscle cells in-vitro.
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Clinical observations with rapid bone formed in the bone substitute and in some cases in the muscle are a consequence of both leakage of bone active proteins and also from osteoprogenitor cells coming from the overlaying muscle interacting with the osteoinductive bone substitute.