Treatment of denervation/disuse osteoporosis in the rat with a capacitively coupled electrical signal: Effects on bone formation and bone resorption
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Orthopaedic Research
- Vol. 6 (5), 676-684
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jor.1100060509
Abstract
Utilizing a sciatic neurectomy model of disuse osteoporosis, the effects on rates of bone formation and bone resorption were examined when a capacitively coupled electrical signal was applied to the denervated tibia in the rat. It was found that a low-voltage, symmetrical sine wave, 60-kHz, capacitively coupled signal had no significant effect on the amount of bone resorption occurring in denervated right tibiae in rats previously labeled with [3H]tetracycline. This was true whether the signal was applied while osteoporosis was developing (prevention of osteoporosis) or after it had been established (treatment of osteoporosis). If a similar capacitively coupled signal was applied to rats in which osteoporosis was well established, and the rats were labeled with [3H]tetracycline daily during a 12-day treatment period, it was found that there was statistically significant enhancement of the amount of new bone formation (increased [3H]tetracycline incorporation) in the tibiae that received the signal as compared with that of the controls. These results indicate that prevention or amelioration of disuse osteoporosis that occurs with a capacitively coupled electrical signal is due not to a change in the rate of bone resorption, but to an increase in the rate of bone formation.Keywords
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