Misconceptions (2): Turnover is always higher in cancellous than in cortical bone
Misconceptions (2): Turnover is always higher in cancellous than in cortical bone
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DOI:
10.1016/s8756-3282(02)00735-4
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发表时间:
2002-06-01
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影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Parfitt, AM
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Parfitt, AM
Since it became generally recognized that bone is subject to turnover, 28 it has often been asserted without qualification that cancellous bone has higher turnover than cortical bone. For example:“Much is often made of differences in cortical and metabolically more active cancellous bone...” 13;“... trabecular bone... is eight times more metabolically active than cortical bone” 29;“... trabecular bone is metabolically more active than cortical bone, with an annual turnover of approximately 20% to 30% for the former and 3% to 10% for the latter” 2; and “the cancellous bone, which represents about 20% of the skeletal mass, makes up 80% of the turnover, while the cortex, which represents 80% of the bone, makes up only 20% of the turnover.” 5 Herein, I clarify exactly what such a belief implies, trace its origins, define the circumstances in which it is true, and specify the necessary qualifications, which are invariably omitted. But first I must explain precisely what is meant by “bone turnover.” The language of science frequently takes words in common use and redefines them for a different purpose, but the meaning of “turnover” in bone physiology is exactly the same as its everyday meaning, which is replacement. The personnel manager of a business refers to the turnover of employees and the owner of a store to the turnover of items of merchandise. In both cases, the rate of turnover is expressed as a proportion of the total (usually a decimal fraction or a percentage) per unit of time, which could be a year in the former case or a week in the latter. The reciprocal of turnover is always a period of time. For example, if the turnover of checkout clerks is 50%/year, their average length of employment will be 2 years, although their individual lengths may vary over a wide range. In everyday use, turnover is most often of people or things. Bone is a continuous material rather than an assemblage of discrete entities, but otherwise its turnover is defined in exactly the same way—it refers to proportional volume replacement per unit time, usually expressed as percent/year. As before, the reciprocal of turnover is a period of time; if bone turnover is 10%/year, then the mean lifetime of each moiety of bone is 10 years, although their individual lifetimes may vary over a wide range. 14