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Se realizó una revisión de los modelos computaciones de diferenciación y adaptación ósea existentes, haciendo énfasis en el desarrollo alcanzado en esta área durante los últimos años. El estudio del tejido óseo ha venido en aumento en las últimas décadas gracias al renacimiento de la mecanobiología, cuyo paradigma principal es la influencia que tienen las cargas mecánicas sobre el desarrollo, adaptación y mantenimiento de los tejidos. El objetivo principal del trabajo es resaltar la importancia de la mecanobiología computacional en el modelado del tejido óseo y la necesidad de seguir desarrollando la mecanobiología experimental para poder medir con exactitud las propiedades de los tejidos y las características celulares de mayor sensibilidad en los modelos computacionales
Authors review the available computational models of bone differentiation and adaptation, emphasizing on the development achieved in this area during pas years. The bone tissue study has increased in past decades due to rebirth of mechanobiology, whose main paradigm is the influence of mechanical loads on the tissues development, adaptation and maintenance. The major objective of present paper is to emphasize la significance of computational mechanobiology in the bone tissue modeling and the need to keep on developing the experimental mechanobiology to measure accurately the tissues properties and the more sensible cellular features of computational models
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The aim of this study is to monitor reporter gene expression under osteocalcin gene promoter, using a real-time molecular imaging system, as tool to investigate osteoblast differentiation. The promoter region of mouse osteocalcin gene 2 (mOG2), the best-characterized osteoblast- specific gene, was inserted in promoterless luciferase reporter vector. Expression of reporter gene was confirmed and relationship between the reporter gene expression and osteoblastic differentiation was evaluated. Gene expression according to osteoblstic differentiation on biomaterials, utilizing a real-time molecular imaging system, was monitored. Luciferase was expressed at the only cells transduced with pGL4/mOGP and the level of expression was statistically higher at cells cultured in mineralization medium than cells in growth medium. CCCD camera detected the luciferase expression and was visible differentiation-dependent intensity of luminescence. The cells produced osteocalcin with time-dependent increment in BMP-2 treated cells and there was difference between BMP-2 treated cells and untreated cells at 14days. There was difference at the level of luciferase expression under pGL4/mOGP between BMP-2 treated cells and untreated cells at 3days. CCCD camera detected the luciferase expression at cells transduced with pGL4/mOGP on Ti disc and was visible differentiation-dependent intensity of luminescence This study shows that 1) expression of luciferase is regulated by the mouse OC promoter, 2) the CCCD d etection s ys tem is a r eliable quantitative gene d etection t ool f or t he o s teoblas t differentiation, 3) the dynamics of mouse OC promoter regulation during osteoblast differentiation is achieved in real time and quantitatively on biomaterial. The present system is a very reliable system for monitoring of osteoblast differentiation in real time and may be used for monitoring the effects of growth factors, drug, cytokines and biomaterials on osteoblast differentiation in animal.