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Role of Osteal Macrophages in Bone Metabolism
Sun Wook Cho
Journal of Pathology and Translational Medicine 2015;49(2):102-104.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4132/jptm.2015.02.02
Published online: March 12, 2015

Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Corresponding Author: Sun Wook Cho, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-744, Korea Tel: +82-2-2072-2114 Fax: +82-2-762-2292 E-mail: 'swchomd@gmail.com'
• Received: January 31, 2015   • Accepted: February 2, 2015

© 2015 The Korean Society of Pathologists/The Korean Society for Cytopathology

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  • Macrophages have been shown to have pleiotropic functions in various pathophysiologies, especially in terms of anti-inflammatory and regenerative activity. Recently, the novel functions of bone marrow resident macrophages (called osteal macrophages) were intensively studied in bone development, remodeling and tissue repair processes. This review discusses the current evidence for a role of osteal macrophages in bone modeling, remodeling, and fracture healing processes.
Macrophages are abundant immune cells in bone marrow. Classically, macrophages are rapidly recruited into infectious or injured sites where they play critical roles in innate immunity. Moreover, macrophages regulate tissue homeostasis in various pathophysiologic processes including innate and adaptive immunity, wound healing, hematopoiesis, and malignancy. For examples, macrophages not only initiate tissue inflammation, but also promote wound healing and tissue remodeling [1]. Macrophages are schematically classified into two subtypes: classically activated, pro-inflammatory M1-macrophages and alternatively activated, anti-inflammatory/regenerative M2-macrophages [1].
Apart from osteoclasts, osteal macrophages in bone marrow were recently recounted as a pivotal player in bone metabolism. In murine tissues, F4/80 monoclonal antibody [2] has been widely used to distinguish mature macrophages from osteoclasts, since F4/80 is rapidly down-regulated in the early stage of osteoclastogenesis [3]. At the bone and marrow interface, especially in the bone multicellular units, osteal macrophages form a cellular canopy structure over the bone-forming osteoblast [4]. In particular, the bone remodeling site, which is affected by anabolic factors such as parathyroid hormone (PTH; PTH1-34), showed augmented osteal macrophages (Fig. 1) [5]. These observations suggest that osteal macrophages might play a role in bone remodeling.
Evidence suggests that macrophages participate in pleiotropic aspects of bone metabolism. Macrophages have been involved in vascular calcification in ectopic bone formation. Co-culture of macrophages with calcifying vascular cells [6] or human vascular smooth muscle cells [7] enhanced alkaline phosphatase activity and mineralization potential. Tumor necrosis factor [6,7] and oncostatin M [7] have been suggested as molecular mediators of macrophage-derived vascular calcification. In addition, depletion of macrophages reduced osteophyte formation in osteoarthritic models [8-10], and macrophages have been implicated in the sites of pathologic bone loss in inflammatory bone disorders [11,12]. These observations suggest that macrophages play a critical role in bone formation and mineralization.
Depletion of macrophages in primary calvarial osteoblast cultures in vitro has been shown to delay osteogenic differentiation and mineralization [4,13]. In the macrophage fas-induced apoptosis (Mafia) transgenic mouse model, short-term depletion of macrophages with treatment of a synthetic ligand in vivo showed a quantitative reduction of bone formation sites in endocortical bones [4,13]. In a recent study, in vivo long-term depletion of macrophages in young (3–21 days) and adult (16–22 months) Mafia mice demonstrated an osteopenic phenotypes with suppressed serum bone turnover markers [5]. The anabolic actions of PTH in bone were markedly reduced in this model [5]. This study reinforced the hypothesis that osteal macrophages play a pivotal role in bone anabolism. Another independent study with lysozyme M-deficient mice also showed that pre-natal macrophage depletion led to early skeletal growth retardation and progressive osteoporosis [14]. The latter two studies clearly showed that functional osteoclasts were not significantly affected in these macrophage-deficient models [5,14]. Taken together, these results suggest that osteal macrophages play an essential role in normal bone development and remodeling, especially through anabolic actions.
One of the critical concerns with osteal macrophages is how to distinguish bone marrow resident macrophages from osteoclasts, since they share the same precursors. Studies of Mafia mice [5] or lysozyme M-deficient mice [14] showed functionally active osteoclast activities, while macrophages were remarkably depleted, but still there were possible impacts of subtle changes in osteoclasts on overall bone metabolism. A recent study showed more clear evidence supporting the independent presence of functioning osteal macrophages apart from osteoclasts. CCL5- deficient mice showed decreased F4/80-positive macrophages at the endocortical bone surface, following reduced bone formation compared to the wild-type mice [15]. Osteoclastogenesis was enhanced in this model [15]. More studies with a bone marrowspecific macrophage depletion model are needed.
Fracture healing is composed of inflammation and bone repair processes, including endochondral ossification. Previous studies have demonstrated that macrophages are present during multiple stages of fracture healing, and produce mesenchymal growth factors [16]. Macrophages are also associated with more stable callus formation and healthy union [17].
Keeping pace with the studies of osteal macrophages in bone metabolism, several groups have extensively studied how osteal macrophages participate in fracture healing of bone. Both systemic and local depletions of macrophages delayed fracture healing and impaired woven bone formation, while treatment of colony stimulating factor 1 increased macrophage recruitment into the injury sites and supported woven bone formation [18]. This study showed that macrophages were essential for collagen type I-positive matrix formation and bone mineralization [18]. Similarly, an independent study also showed that depletion of macrophages during fracture repair, even after several days later to fracture, led to impaired bone union with incomplete callus formation accompanied with more fibrotic changes. They observed that macrophages were also involved in promoting the osteogenic differentiation of marrow mesenchymal progenitor cells [14]. Moreover, a recent study clarified that inflammatory M1-macrophages (F4/80+ Mac-2+ ) played a crucial role in the initiation of early inflammation, and both inflammatory (F4/80+ Mac-2+ ) and resident (F4/80+ Mac-2- ) macrophages derived anabolic signals for endochondral callus formations in murine fracture models [19]. Taken together, accumulating evidence suggests that macrophages and their specific molecular mediators contribute to fracture healing in a phase-specific polarization-dependent manner.
To date, osteal macrophages have been considered a third cellular component, in addition to osteoblasts and osteoclasts. Macrophages construct a cellular canopy structure over bone remodeling sites, coordinate osteoclast-to-osteoblast coupling, and drive anabolic cytokines for bone formation. Macrophages also create a regenerative microenvironment in the fracture healing processes. In addition, macrophages might play a role in bone and marrow interactions especially at the osteoblastic stem cell niche. Targeting osteal macrophages or their molecular mediators could be potent therapeutic challenges for developing anabolic therapies for bone disease. Further studies are needed to develop specific targets that could be distinguished from osteoclast or inflammatory macrophages.

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Fig. 1.
Osteal macrophages at the bone formation sites of murine bones. F4/80-positive osteal macrophages create a canopy-like structure over the bone remodeling site. Compare to the vehicle (VEH) treatment (A), administration of parathyroid hormones (PTH) enhances bone formation, resulting in cuboidal-changes of osteoblasts and increased recruitment of osteal macrophages at bone remodeling sites (B) [5].
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