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Faculté de médecine dentaire, Université Laval, Québec, Province Québec, Canada G1K 7P4;
* corresponding author, guy.gagnon{at}fmd.ulaval
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, IGF-1, Ang-2 and IL-1ß from PRPs, and assessed the mitogenic potential of PRP supernatants on osteoblast and endothelial cell division. ELISA assays indicate that (i) mean growth factor concentrations vary from traces (TGF-) to 5.5 ng/mL (IGF-1), (ii) there are significant variations in growth factor concentrations between individuals, and (iii) calcium and thrombin regulate growth factor release, synthesis, and/or degradation in stereotyped patterns that are specific to each growth factor. PRP supernatants promote strong osteoblast and endothelial cell divisions, supporting the concept that PRPs may be beneficial in wound healing. Abbreviations: PRPs, platelet-rich plasmas; GFs, growth factors; EGF, epidermal growth factor; TGF-, transforming growth factor-alpha; IGF-1, insulin-like growth factor-1; Ang-2, angiopoietin-2; IL-1ß, interleukin-1 beta; HUVECs, human umbilical vein endothelial cells; hFOB 1.19, human fetal osteoblasts; and FBS, fetal bovine serum.
KEY WORDS: platelet-rich plasma • growth factors • endothelial cells • osteoblasts • wound healing
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The wound-healing process is a complex mechanism characterized by four distinct, but overlapping, phases: hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and remodeling (Diegelmann and Evans, 2004). The proliferative phase includes blood vessel formation by endothelial cells and bone synthesis by osteoblasts. All these events are coordinated by cell-cell interactions and by soluble GFs released by various cell types. Thrombin represents a strong inducer of platelet activation leading to GF release (Furman et al., 1998). It is also known that particulate grafts, when combined with calcium- and thrombin-treated PRPs, possess better handling characteristics and higher GFs content (Tayapongsak et al., 1994; Marx et al., 1998; Froum et al., 2002; Weibrich et al., 2002). Typically, thrombin concentrations used in clinical applications vary between 100 and 200 units per mL (Marx et al., 1998), while platelet aggregation is maximum in the range of 0.5 to 4 units per mL (Maloney et al., 1998). To date, little is known about the calcium and thrombin concentrations needed to trigger optimal bone repair.
We have recently demonstrated that the release of PDGF-BB, TGF-ß1, bFGF, and VEGF is significantly regulated by the amount of calcium and thrombin added to the PRPs, and that PRP supernatants are more mitogenic for endothelial cells than whole-blood supernatants, reinforcing the scientific evidence for a beneficial role of PRPs in tissue regeneration (Lacoste et al., 2003; Martineau et al., 2004). Other GFs—such as epidermal growth factor (EGF), transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-), insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2), and interleukin-1beta (IL-1ß)—are also known to play important roles in the wound-healing process (Karey and Sirbasku, 1989; Werner and Grose, 2003).
The purposes of this study were therefore to assess: (i) the concentrations of EGF, TGF-, IGF-1, Ang-2, and IL-1ß released from PRPs after treatment with different concentrations of calcium and thrombin; and (ii) the effects of supernatants from calcium- and thrombin-treated PRPs on endothelial cell and osteoblast proliferation in vitro.
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Treatment of PRPs with Calcium and Thrombin
Thrombin (Thrombostat®, Parke-Davis, Scarborough, ON, Canada) and calcium were added to PRP and whole-blood samples at the following final concentrations: (condition A) 142.8 U/mL of thrombin and 14.3 mg/mL of CaCl2•2H2O; (conditions B and C) five- and 25-fold dilutions of condition A, respectively. Condition A refers to the concentrations used in clinical applications, while condition C is similar to the concentrations reported to induce maximal in vitro platelet aggregation (Maloney et al., 1998; Marx et al., 1998). Calcium- and thrombin-treated PRP aliquots were incubated for 0.5 hr, 1 hr, 6 hrs, 24 hrs, 3 days, and 6 days at 37°C in the presence of 5% CO2 (Auto-Flow incubator, NuAire Inc., Plymouth, MN, USA). Samples were centrifuged for 10 min at 4000 g to collect PRP supernatants. Non-activated PRP supernatants (t = 0 hr) were prepared as follows: PRP aliquots were immediately centrifuged, and calcium and thrombin concentrations corresponding to conditions A, B, and C were subsequently added to the supernatants. All samples were immediately stored at –85°C until further analysis. Two freeze-thaw cycles were also performed on PRP samples, for evaluation of total GF content (Zimmermann et al., 2003).
Determination of Growth Factor Concentrations
GF concentrations in PRP and whole-blood supernatants were determined by sandwich-ELISA. EGF concentrations were measured with the use of an ELISA Development kit according to the manufacturer’s instructions (Peprotech Inc., Rocky Hill, NJ, USA). TGF-, IGF-1, Ang-2, and IL-1ß concentrations were determined by DuoSet ELISA Development kits (R&D Systems, Inc., Minneapolis, MN, USA). Triplicates were performed for all assays.
Cell Culture and Reagents
Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs, Clonetics/Biowhittaker, Walkersville, MD, USA) were expanded in a complete medium consisting of M199 (Gibco BRL, Grand Island, NY, USA) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS; Wisent, Saint-Laurent, QC, Canada), 15 U/mL of heparin, 100 U/mL of penicillin, 100 µg/mL of streptomycin, and 15 µg/mL of endothelial cell growth supplement (ECGS) (Sigma Co., Oakville, ON, Canada). Cells were incubated at 37°C in the presence of 5% CO2. HUVECs from 2nd and 3rd passages only were used in the experiments.
Transformed human osteoblasts (hFOB 1.19, American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, MD, USA) were expanded in a complete medium consisting of DMEM/F12 (Sigma Co., Oakville, ON, Canada) supplemented with 10% FBS, 100 U/mL of penicillin, 100 µg/mL of streptomycin, 2.5 mmol/L of glutamine, and 0.3 mg/mL of G-418 (Invitrogen, Burlington, ON, Canada). The cells were incubated at 34°C in the presence of 5% CO2.
Proliferation Assays
HUVECs and hFOB 1.19 were seeded at densities of 2500 and 1800 cells per well, respectively, in 0.25% gelatine-coated 96-well plates in their corresponding complete medium for 24 hrs. Cells were then incubated in the following minimal medium: M199 supplemented with 1% FBS, 100 U/mL of penicillin, and 100 µg/mL of streptomycin (HUVEC), or DMEM/F12 supplemented with 1% FBS, 100 U/mL of penicillin, 100 µg/mL of streptomycin, and 0.3 mg/mL of G-418 (hFOB 1.19). Cells were incubated for 5 days in minimal medium containing 10% (v/v) of PRP supernatants, including a change of medium at day 3. Cell culture experiments were performed in triplicate.
The effect of PRP supernatants on the proliferation rates of HUVECs and hFOB 1.19 was determined by [3H]-thymidine incorporation as previously described (specific activity, 86.4 Ci/mmol; Perkin-Elmer, Boston, MA, USA) (Martineau et al., 2004). Thymidine incorporation was measured by an LS-6500 Multi-Purpose Scintillation Counter (Beckman Coulter, Mississauga, ON, Canada). We normalized the proliferation rates by dividing the DPM counts of a specific experiment by the DPM counts obtained in minimal medium.
Data Analysis
Student’s t test analyses were performed with InStat 3.0 software (Graphpad Softwares Inc., San Diego, CA, USA).
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). A two- to four-fold increase in GF content was generally noted in PRP supernatants, as compared with whole-blood supernatants (Table 2).
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). Immediate increases (4.7- to 11-fold; p < 0.005) in EGF extracellular concentrations were observed after the addition of all concentrations of calcium and thrombin (Fig. 1A). Highest EGF levels in PRP supernatants were detected at t = 6 hrs with condition A (595 ± 195 pg/mL), followed by a slight decrease over the six-day incubation period.
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, Fig. 1B). A decrease in IGF-1 level was observed over the six-day incubation period in all conditions tested.
Moderate Ang-2 concentrations were detected in supernatants from non-activated PRPs (425 ± 400 pg/mL; Table 2). Highest Ang-2 concentrations were detected in PRP supernatants within the first hour following activation with low concentrations of calcium and thrombin (mean, 1760 ± 450 pg/mL; Fig. 1C). This peak was followed by marked Ang-2 degradation over time.
IL-1ß concentrations in supernatants from non-activated PRPs were below the detection threshold in all volunteers (< 2 pg/mL; Fig. 1D). IL-1ß levels in PRP supernatants reached the detection level only after 6 hrs of incubation with conditions B and C. From that point, an increase in extracellular IL-1ß was observed (up to 430 pg/mL), which was especially evident when PRPs were treated with condition B (greater than 200-fold increase at day 6, as compared with t = 0 hrs; p < 0.05). IL-1ß levels detected at later times in PRP supernatants (24 hrs to 6 days) were greater than the total IL-1ß concentration measured after PRP lysis (mean, 1.4 pg/mL), suggesting a de novo synthesis.
Mean TGF- concentrations were either not detectable or very close to the detection threshold over the entire incubation period (< 4 pg/mL), suggesting that this GF is present at trace levels, and that TGF- release does not seem to be significantly regulated by calcium and thrombin (data not shown).
Endothelial and Osteoblast Cell Proliferation
Significant increases in endothelial cell division (up to 24-fold; p < 0.0001) were observed with the addition of PRP supernatants, as compared with minimal medium alone (Fig. 2A). Supernatants from calcium- and thrombin-treated PRPs were significantly more mitogenic for endothelial cells than were supernatants from non-activated PRPs (p < 0.05). This was especially evident with condition A-treated PRP supernatants. Time before supernatant collection also had an important effect on endothelial cell proliferation: Highest HUVEC division was observed with PRP supernatants collected within the first 24 hrs of treatment, followed by a decrease over the six-day incubation period.
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). While a four- to eight-fold increase in HUVEC division was noted with activated PRP supernatants (as compared with non-activated PRP supernatants), PRP activation had limited effect on osteoblast proliferation. However, condition B was more mitogenic for osteoblasts than was condition A (p < 0.005). |
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As previously reported for TGF-ß, PDGF, VEGF, and bFGF (Weibrich et al., 2002; Lacoste et al., 2003; Martineau et al., 2004), important variations in GF concentrations were detected between individuals having very similar platelet counts (Tables 1 and 2). This was especially evident with the cytokine IL-1ß, in which a 100-fold variation was observed in PRP supernatants from five different donors (data not shown). The inter-individual variation could explain, in part, some of the controversial results obtained with PRPs in different bone regeneration studies (Aghaloo et al., 2002; Froum et al., 2002).
Kinetics experiments were performed over a six-day incubation period, based on the fact that the angiogenic and osteogenic processes are triggered during the first week following an injury (Diegelmann and Evans, 2004). Of particular interest was the major increase in IL-1ß observed in PRP supernatants treated with condition B (up to 200-fold increase at day 6 as compared with non-activated PRPs). These concentrations (mean, 425 pg/mL) were greater than total IL-1ß levels measured after PRP lysis (mean, 1.4 pg/mL; data not shown), suggesting a de novo synthesis. While it is recognized that platelets do not contain DNA, micro-array hybridization studies have suggested that platelets contain as many as 1500 different mRNAs, including the one encoding for IL-1ß (Bugert et al., 2003). However, PRPs consist of a mixture of erythrocytes, platelets, and leukocytes, and, in a recent study, a significant increase in IL-1ß was observed from PRPs only when the concentration of leukocytes was above 108 cells, suggesting that IL-1ß synthesis from PRPs was mainly related to leukocytes (Hartwig et al., 2002). Table 1 shows that 30% of total monocytes were recovered following PRP preparation. It has also recently been shown that the expression of IL-1ß by monocytes can be regulated by thrombin, in a time-dependent manner (Naldini et al., 2002). Additional experiments are needed to clarify the relative contributions of platelets and leukocytes to IL-1ß synthesis.
The addition of calcium and thrombin to PRPs had different effects on extracellular GF concentration (Fig. 1). EGF and Ang-2 levels increased immediately after treatment, IGF-1 decreased slowly, and a delayed increase in IL-1ß concentration was observed over time. These patterns were observed for all donors, suggesting that calcium and thrombin regulate GF release, synthesis, and/or degradation in stereotyped patterns that are specific to each growth factor. The amounts of calcium and thrombin added to PRPs also had different effects on extracellular GF content: Highest EGF levels were observed with condition A, IL-1ß concentrations were maximal with condition B, and the greatest amounts of Ang-2 were detected with condition C. These results suggest that different mechanisms may regulate extracellular GF concentration. Platelets are known to have multiple vesicles, including alpha-granules, dense bodies, and lysosomes (Harrison and Cramer, 1993; Heijnen et al., 1999). EGF is known to be present in alpha-granules and released after activation with thrombin (Oka and Orth, 1983; Ben-Ezra et al., 1990). Ang-2 was also released after calcium and thrombin activation, which may suggest a similar location. Even if Ang-1 is known to be present in platelets (Li et al., 2001), more studies are needed to characterize the localization of Ang-2. In contrast, no immediate increase in extracellular IGF-1 or IL-1ß was detected after the addition of calcium and thrombin, even if these GFs/cytokines had been identified in platelets (Karey and Sirbasku, 1989; Kobayashi et al., 2002), reinforcing the existence of different mechanisms for GF release, synthesis, or degradation.
Supernatants from activated PRPs appeared to be more mitogenic for HUVECs than did non-activated PRP supernatants. This was especially evident with condition A-treated PRP supernatants (Fig. 2A). It has previously been reported that thrombin alone can stimulate endothelial cell division (Lafay et al., 1998; Borrelli et al., 2001), but these and previous results suggest that HUVEC division is predominantly related to GF release from PRPs and not from thrombin per se (Lacoste et al., 2003). Interestingly, osteoblast proliferation almost reached its maximum with non-activated PRP supernatants (mean, 14-fold increase, as compared with minimal medium alone), suggesting that endogenous extracellular GFs from non-activated PRPs were present in sufficient amounts. PRP activation had little additional benefit on osteoblast division, which is in contrast to endothelial cell behavior, and confirms that the proliferation of these 2 cell types is regulated by different growth factors. Since angiogenesis precedes osteogenesis in the wound-healing process, and since osteoblasts are peri-vascular cells, it is plausible that stimulation of blood vessel formation with high calcium and thrombin concentrations may help to up-regulate osteogenic activity. Additional experiments are needed to determine which calcium and thrombin concentrations are optimal for bone formation in vivo.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
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Received July 29, 2004; Last revision January 11, 2005; Accepted January 12, 2005
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