Article
Microvessel endothelial cells and pericytes increase proliferation and repress osteoblast phenotypic markers in rat calvarial bone cell cultures.
Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society - 1 Jul 1995
Jones A R, Clark C C, Brighton C T
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the influence of microvessel cells on osteoblasts, we exposed osteoblast-enriched cultures of rat calvarial cells to cultured endothelial cells and pericytes using feeder-layer co-cultures, co-culture dish inserts, and conditioned media experiments. When co-cultured with growth-arrested feeder-layers of endothelial cells or pericytes for 10 days, bone cell cultures showed an increase in cell number...
Topics
- Animals
- Cell Communication
- Cell Division
- Cells, Cultured
- Culture Media, Conditioned
- Cytological Techniques
- Endothelium, Vascular
- Genetic Markers
- Microcirculation
- Osteoblasts
