RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Analysis of bone histomorphometry in rat and guinea pig animal models subject to hypoxia A1 Usategui Martín, Ricardo A1 Real, Álvaro del A1 Sainz-Aja Guerra, José A. A1 Prieto Lloret, Jesús A1 Olea Fraile, Elena A1 Rocher Martín, María Asunción A1 Rigual Bonastre, Ricardo Jaime A1 Riancho Moral, José Antonio A1 Pérez Castrillon, José Luis K1 Hypoxia K1 Hipoxia K1 Biometry K1 Biometría K1 Bone remodeling K1 Huesos - Regeneración K1 Bone - Diseases K1 Huesos - Enfermedades - Diagnóstico K1 Obesity K1 Obesidad K1 Tomography K1 Tomografía computada K1 Animal Models K1 Modelos animales K1 Laboratory animals K1 Animales de laboratorio K1 Animal experimentation K1 Experimentación animal K1 2415 Biología Molecular K1 3201.04 Patología Clínica AB Hypoxia may be associated with alterations in bone remodeling, but the published results are contradictory. The aim of this study was to characterize the bone morphometry changes subject to hypoxia for a better understanding of the bone response to hypoxia and its possible clinical consequences on the bone metabolism. This study analyzed the bone morphometry parameters by micro-computed tomography (μCT) in rat and guinea pig normobaric hypoxia models. Adult male and female Wistar rats were exposed to chronic hypoxia for 7 and 15 days. Additionally, adult male guinea pigs were exposed to chronic hypoxia for 15 days. The results showed that rats exposed to chronic constant and intermittent hypoxic conditions had a worse trabecular and cortical bone health than control rats (under a normoxic condition). Rats under chronic constant hypoxia were associated with a more deteriorated cortical tibia thickness, trabecular femur and tibia bone volume over the total volume (BV/TV), tibia trabecular number (Tb.N), and trabecular femur and tibia bone mineral density (BMD). In the case of chronic intermittent hypoxia, rats subjected to intermittent hypoxia had a lower cortical femur tissue mineral density (TMD), lower trabecular tibia BV/TV, and lower trabecular thickness (Tb.Th) of the tibia and lower tibia Tb.N. The results also showed that obese rats under a hypoxic condition had worse values for the femur and tibia BV/TV, tibia trabecular separation (Tb.Sp), femur and tibia Tb.N, and BMD for the femur and tibia than normoweight rats under a hypoxic condition. In conclusion, hypoxia and obesity may modify bone remodeling, and thus bone microarchitecture, and they might lead to reductions in the bone strength and therefore increase the risk of fragility fracture. PB MDPI SN 1422-0067 YR 2022 FD 2022 LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/61612 UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/61612 LA eng NO International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022, Vol. 23, Nº. 21, 12742 NO Producción Científica DS UVaDOC RD 22-dic-2024