Article
CSF-1 treatment promotes angiogenesis in the metaphysis of osteopetrotic (toothless, tl) rats.
Bone - 1 Mar 1995
Aharinejad S, Marks S C, Böck P, Mason-Savas A, MacKay C A, Larson E K, Jackson M E, Luftensteiner M, Wiesbauer E
Abstract excerpt
It has recently been shown that following treatment with colony-stimulating factor-1 (CSF-1) the osteopetrotic condition in toothless (tl) rats greatly improves and growth is accelerated. We have examined the effects of such treatment on the microvasculature of the distal femoral chondro-osseous...
Topics
- Animals
- Arterioles
- Capillaries
- Cartilage
- Corrosion Casting
- Endothelium, Vascular
- Female
- Femur
- Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor
- Male
- Microscopy, Electron
- Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
