scholarly journals Bone marrow edema-like lesions (BMELs) are associated with higher T1ρ and T2 values of cartilage in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)-reconstructed knees: a longitudinal study

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 661-670 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jingshan Gong ◽  
Valentina Pedoia ◽  
Luca Facchetti ◽  
Thomas M. Link ◽  
C. Benjamin Ma ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Bone Marrow ◽  
Anterior Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Bone Marrow Edema ◽  
Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Anterior Cruciate ◽  
Marrow Edema

scholarly journals Bone marrow stromal cells from a GDF5 origin produce zonal tendon-to-bone attachments following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuke Hagiwara ◽  
Felix Dyrna ◽  
Andrew F Kuntz ◽  
Douglas J Adams ◽  
Nathaniel A Dyment
Keyword(s):  
Bone Marrow ◽  
Anterior Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Acl Reconstruction ◽  
Cruciate Ligament ◽  
Tendon Graft ◽  
Host Cells ◽  
Biological Mechanisms ◽  
Anterior Cruciate ◽  
Bone Tunnels ◽  
Anterior Posterior

ABSTRACTFollowing anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, the ligament is often reconstructed with a tendon graft passed through bone marrow tunnels. This procedure results in a staged repair response where cell death occurs in the tendon graft, the graft is repopulated by host cells outside the graft, and tendon-to-bone attachments form at the graft/bone interface. While this healing process is well appreciated, the biological mechanisms that regulate it including the cellular origin of the repair response is poorly understood. Embryonic progenitor cells expressing growth and differentiation factor 5 (GDF5) give rise to several mesenchymal tissues in the joint and epiphyses. Therefore, we hypothesized that cells from a GDF5 origin, even in the adult tissue, would give rise to cells that contribute to the stages of repair following ACL reconstruction. ACLs were reconstructed in Gdf5Cre;R26R-tdTomato lineage tracing mice to monitor the contribution of Gdf5Cre;tdTom+ cells to graft revitalization and examine the extent to which these cells are capable of creating mineralized attachments within the bone tunnels. Anterior-posterior drawer tests were used to establish the stability of the knee following the procedure and demonstrated 58% restoration in anterior-posterior stability. Following reconstruction, Gdf5Cre;tdTom+ cells within the bone marrow expanded by 135-fold compared to intact controls in response to the injury. These cells migrated to the tendon graft interface, repopulated regions of the graft, and initiated tendon-to-bone attachments. These cells continued to organize and mature the attachments yielding a zonal insertion site at 4 weeks with collagen fibers spanning across unmineralized and mineralized fibrocartilage and anchored to adjacent bone. The zonal attachment possessed organized tidemarks with concentrated alkaline phosphatase activity similar to normal tendon or ligament entheses. This study established that mesenchymal cells from a GDF5 origin contribute to the creation of zonal tendon-to-bone attachments within bone tunnels following ACL reconstruction. Future studies will target this cell population to modulate the repair response in order to better understand key biological mechanisms that regulate tendon-to-bone repair.

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