## Abstract The effect of the two antineoplastic drugs, Adriamycin and methotrexate, on orthotopic bone, and on the induction of experimental heterotopic bone in rats was analyzed. The drugs were administered as single injections: Adriamycin in s.c. doses of 0.5 and 2 mg/kg body weight and methotre
Effects of indomethacin on demineralized bone-induced heterotopic ossification in the rat
β Scribed by Paul E. DiCesare; Marcel E. Nimni; Lynnus Peng; Mohamadreza Yazdi; Dr. David T. Cheung
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 657 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0736-0266
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β¦ Synopsis
Abstract
Indomethacin inhibits bone formation when treatment is initiated before the implantation of demineralized bone matrix (DBM). For the inhibition of bone induction to occur, indomethacin treatment had to be initiated 6 h or more before implantation of DBM. Initiating the drug treatment at or after the time of DBM implantation had no effects on the amounts of new bone formed. The inhibition by indomethacin is dose related over a range between 0.04 and 4 mg/kg body weight. Recovered dayβ1 DBM implants, transplanted into indomethacin preβ and posttreated syngeneic rats, formed bone at the same rate as controls did. However, recovered dayβ1 DBM implants lyophilized before transplantation showed decreased bone formation but significant dystrophic calcification as judged by a lower alkaline phosphatase activity and an elevated calcium content.
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