aFGF promotes vascularization and osteogenesis in repair bones of extremities
[1-4] . ANFH is a special disease, treatment in early-stage with perforate decompression
[16], the ideal animal model for this is what we did in our research called “femoral head bone defect models”. Up till now, no paper on treatment of early-stage ANFH by aFGF in science literature reported.
Our previous study showed that tissue-engineered artificial bone combined with aFGF and PDPB promotes vascularization in repair of early-stage ANFH in rabbits[8], and X-ray results showed that tissue-engineered artificial bone combined with aFGF/PDPB exhibits better effects on repairing early-stage ANFH in rabbits[9], with presentations resembling to PDPB. How about the histological results?
In this study, histological study shows that defects filled with granulation tissues and fibrous connective tissues, only a little osteoid tissue formed at the borderline in the blank group at the end of the 8th weeks. In the PDPB group, a little new bone and cavitas medullaris formed. At 8 week, lots of graft was absorbed and cavitas medullaris formed with more osteoplast and myeloid cell in it. aFGF/PDPB group showed better than that of PDPB group at each time point. At 8 weeks, the graft was replaced by bone tissues, cavitas medullaris were formed with lots of bone marrow cells in it, at the borderline of the bone trabecula, there were lots of osteoplast and a little osteoclasts that play a role of bone remodeling, bone lacuna with mature bone cells in it can been seen. Present study shows that aFGF/PDPB group produces better repair effect on ANFH than that of PDPB group in histological study at each time point.
Our histological study indicates that aFGF/PDPB have good repair effect on early stage femoral head avascular necrosis in rabbit models.