Feasibility of Treating Irradiated Bone with Intramedullary Delivered Autologous Mesenchymal Stem Cells

Table 1

Pretherapeutic value of ^99mTc-HDP bone uptake of the rat hindlimbs. Results were expressed as percentage of total corporel activity.

		Group 1		Group 2
		Nonirradiated hindlimb	Irradiated hindlimb	Nonirradiated hindlimb	Irradiated hindlimb
Bone blood flow	Knee	7.9±1.0	8.3±1.2	8.1±1.3	8.3±1.3
	Tibia	3.82±0.6	3.0±0.8 *	3.79±1.0	3.2±0.3 *
	Foot	2.4±0.7	2.6±0.8	2.7±0.6	2.6±0.7
Bone osteoblastic metabolism	Knee	10.3±3.0	9.9±1.7	11.3±4.9	8.9±1.9
	Tibia	2.2±0.2	2.1±0.1	2.3±0.2	2.0±0.3
	Foot	3.8±0.7	3.3±1.0	3.7±3.0	3.5±1.4

* 𝑃<0.05  versus contralateral nonirradiated legs.