Interação do alendronato e da vitamina K no metabolismo osteomineral de ratas ovariectomizadas

Fernanda Scarpatti Pimentel

The bone is a specialized form of connective tissue that provides support for metabolic and biomechanical throughout the body. Thus, the bone is very dynamic, with constantly renewing itself. His integrity therefore depends on the balance between the processes of formation and resorption. The loss of this balance alters both the structure of organic matrix as bone mineralization. Moreover, imbalances in bone remodeling process may result in the development of systemic skeletal diseases such as osteoporosis. The osteoporosis is a chronic progressive disease that affects millions of people around the world. Only in Brazil some 10 million people suffer from osteoporosis. The hormone estrogen deficiency induced by ovariectomy (OVX) rats, demonstrably stimulates increased bone resorption, especially in long bones and spine, mimicking what happens in postmenopausal osteoporosis. In this work we used OVX rats to investigate the interaction of alendronate (a drug widely used to treat osteoporosis) and vitamin K (VK) (recent investigations have pointed anabolic bone tissue of osteoporotic patients) in the metabolism osteomineral. This study revealed that administration of alendronate (ALE) and VK with ALE (ALE+VK) produced significant recovery in bone mineral density (BMD) in OVX rats. However, the use of VK alone did not appear to make any significant effect on BMD in OVX rats. We observed an increased excretion of urinary deoxypyridinoline (DPD), a marker of bone resorption, in OVX group, and statistically significant reduction of DPD when the animals were treated with VK, ALE, or both. There was no statistically significant difference in bone mineral content and body surface area. Was verified statistically significant difference in the thickness of compact bone in the different study groups. There was also a statistically significant reduction in wet weight and endometrium of OVX rats, demonstrating the effectiveness of ovariectomy. Therefore, the animal model used in this study efficiently mimicked estrogen deficiency induced by ovariectomy, resulting in increased bone resorption; treatment with ALE and VK+ALE increases BMD in OVX rats, while the VK alone does not produce this effect; treatment with ALE and VK reduces bone resorption in OVX rats, verified by the reduction in the excretion of DPD.

Interação do alendronato e da vitamina K no metabolismo osteomineral de ratas ovariectomizadas

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