Research Paper Volume 12, Issue 14 pp 15121—15133

Figure 1. Aging increases OC formation from sorted CD45+F4/80+ bone marrow macrophages. Similar numbers of sorted CD45+F4/80+ macrophages from young and aged C57BL/6J mice were cultured in the presence of RANKL (80 ng/ml) and M-CSF (20 ng/ml). Growth media was changed every second day for 5-7 days until mature, multinucleated OCs (>3 nuclei) were formed. (A) Images of TRAP+ OCs generated. Scale bar is 100 μm. (B) The number of TRAP+ OCs formed in each well was quantified, showing that more OCs were generated from aged CD45+F4/80+ macrophages compared to young macrophages. Four independent experiments gave similar results, and a representative experiment is shown. Graphs are mean ± SD with ***p<0.001 (N=4/group). (C) Frequency of CD45+F4/80+ macrophage (%) in bone marrow cells isolated from young and aged C57BL/6J mice (males and females combined). Data are mean ± SD of four independent experiments (p=0.08, ns indicates non-significant).