ROLE OF MITOCHONDRIA IN GROWTH PLATE CALCIFICATION AS DEMONSTRATED IN A RACHITIC MODEL
ROLE OF MITOCHONDRIA IN GROWTH PLATE CALCIFICATION AS DEMONSTRATED IN A RACHITIC MODEL
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DOI:
10.2106/00004623-197860050-00007
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
HUNT, RM
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作者:
BRIGHTON, CT;HUNT, RM
In a phosphate-vitamin D deficiency rachitic model in rats, potassium pyroantimonate was employed as a histochemical stain for Ca2+ at the ultrastructural level in the costochondral growth plates. In the control plates, there was a shift of Ca2+ from an intracellular, mainly mitochondrial location in the top part of the zone of hypertrophic cells to an extracellular, mainly matrix-vesicle location in the bottom part of the zone of hypertrophic cells. In the rachitic plates, mitochondria and cell membranes throughout the bottom of the hypertrophic zone remained heavily loaded with Ca2+. After treatment with phosphate was started, the mitochondria and cell membranes at the bottom of the hypertrophic zone rapidly lost Ca2+ and matrix calcification began. Thus, in the normal growth plate, matrix calcification begins at the level in the plate where mitochondria lose Ca2+; in rickets, the matrix does not calcify and mitochondria do not lose Ca2+; and in healing rickets, calcification begins in the matrix at the bottom of the hypertrophic zone as the mitochondria at that level lose Ca2+. These findings support the hypothesis that mitochondria play an important role in matrix calcification.