REACTIVATION OF INHIBITED BONE ACID-PHOSPHATASE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN BONE HISTOMORPHOMETRY
REACTIVATION OF INHIBITED BONE ACID-PHOSPHATASE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN BONE HISTOMORPHOMETRY
复制标题
DOI:
10.1177/35.12.3680930
复制
发表时间:
1987-12-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
HOWARD, GA
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
LIU, CC;SHERRARD, DJ;HOWARD, GA
Despite biochemical demonstration of acid phosphatase (AcP) activation or reactivation in bone, few attempts have been made to show similar effects histochemically. Bones from growing rats, when fixed in 4% buffered formaldehyde at room temperature and demineralized in 5% formic acid, exhibited expected inactivation of AcP. The inhibited AcP, however, was reactivated by pre-incubation of sections for 1 hr at 37.degree. C in the following buffers: 0.2 M Tris, 0.2 M glycine, 0.2 M NaHCO3, or 0.1 M borax, as well as in alkaline water, but not in 0.2 M Na2HOP4 (all at pH 9). The reactivation was (a) site-specific (e.g., osteoclasts, osteoblasts, osteocytes, and cement lines), (b) temperature- and pH-dependent, (c) unaffected by OH- or SH--binding agents or by an alkaline phosphatase inhibitor, and (d) inhibited completely by 10 mM Na2HPO4. The reactivation process, much simplified and/or more effective than with the methods previously reported, was observed in all 83 human biopsy bones embedded in methyl methacrylate and in human bones stored in cold buffered formaldehyde for 7 months. This study demonstrates a unique method for reactivating and thus localizing the inhibited AcP in bones, and suggests possible applications in bone histomorphometry.