In mice with knee injury, teriparatide increased joint bone volume compared with saline-treated controls.
In plain wordsIn mice with knee injury, teriparatide increased joint bone volume compared with saline.
- Peptide
- Teriparatide (PTH 1-34)
- Outcome
- IncreaseJoint bone volume
- Study
mousen: not reported in source
Meniscal/ligamentous injury-induced knee osteoarthritis- Comparator
- Saline-treated controls
- Outcome group
- Bone and joint · Musculoskeletal
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · systemicAs given in this study (mouse).
Source sentences
Microcomputed tomography revealed increased bone volume within joints from teriparatide-treated mice compared to saline-treated control animals.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
To test whether recombinant human PTH(1-34) (teriparatide) would inhibit aberrant chondrocyte maturation and associated articular cartilage degeneration, we administered systemic teriparatide (Forteo), a Food and Drug Administration-approved treatment for osteoporosis, either immediately after or 8…
Knee joints were harvested at 4, 8, or 12 weeks after injury to examine the effects of teriparatide on cartilage degeneration and articular chondrocyte maturation.