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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Immunol.
Sec. Inflammation
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2025.1547491
This article is part of the Research TopicInnovative Immunoregulation Strategies in the Chronic Inflammation-Based DiseasesView all 3 articles
Establishment of fracture blister model and analysis of plasma protein markers in rats
Provisionally accepted
Xin Hu1,2Peiyuan Wang1,2
Tao Wang1,2Jingcheng Cao1,2Kezheng Du1,2Liu Lin1,2Xin Wang1Haofei Wang1,2
Ling Wang1,2*
Lin Jin1,2*
Zhiyong Hou1,2,3,4*- 1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, 050051., Shijiazhuang,Hebei, China
- 2Key Laboratory of Biomechanics of Hebei Province,, Shijiazhuang,Hebei, China
- 3Engineering Research Center of Orthopedic MinimallyInvasive Intelligent Equipment, Ministry of Education., Shijiazhuang,Hebei, China
- 4NHC Key Laboratory of Intelligent Orthopaedic Equipment, Shijiazhuang,Hebei, China
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Purpose ： Fracture blister (FB) is a frequent complication in orthopedic surgery. The primary objective of this study was to refine the animal model of FB and to identify plasma protein markers associated with its development and progression.Methods ： In this study, Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were used as experimental subjects.Various pressures and compression durations were applied to the lower limbs of rats with fractures to compare the differential expression patterns (DEPs) between the pressure-time combination that resulted in the highest incidence of blisters and other groups. Subsequently, we investigated the variations in DEPs expression across different time intervals of the established model.Results：Our findings indicate that following a lower limb fracture in SD rats, the highest incidence of blister formation was observed under conditions of 450 mmHg pressure and 9 hours of compression (46%, 7/15). In this group, the levels of CD44 and B2M were significantly elevated, while those of Activin R2A were reduced. Furthermore, we investigated the temporal profile of the group with the highest incidence of blister formation and found that CXCL16 and ROBO1 reached peak secretion 48 hours post-injury, followed by a subsequent decline.Additionally, the secretion of IL-2RG and IL-7 continued to increase 48 hours after the injury.Conclusions：the increase of CD44 and B2M and the decrease of Activin R2A might be the potential influencing factors for the higher incidence of fracture blisters. CXCL16 and ROBO1 reached their peak 48 hours after the end of molding, and IL-2 RG and IL-7 R continued to increase 48 hours after the end of molding, which will provide a new direction for the study of the occurrence and development mechanism of fracture blisters.Keywords：fracture blister，animal models,cytokines，differentially expressed proteins， plasma protein.
Keywords: Fracture blister, Animal Models, Cytokines, Differentially expressed proteins, Plasma protein
Received: 18 Dec 2024; Accepted: 10 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Hu, Wang, Wang, Cao, Du, Lin, Wang, Wang, Wang, Jin and Hou. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Ling Wang, Key Laboratory of Biomechanics of Hebei Province,, Shijiazhuang,Hebei, China
Lin Jin, Key Laboratory of Biomechanics of Hebei Province,, Shijiazhuang,Hebei, China
Zhiyong Hou, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hebei Medical University Third Hospital, 050051., Shijiazhuang,Hebei, China
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