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Recently, there has been more and more people receiving the operation of total joint replacement(TJR). But the most serious problem of this surgery now is complication of prothesis loosening. It is not fully understood. According to clinical reports, doctors found various foreign particles in adjacent tissue when proceeding revision operations. These particles include UHMWPE debris, metal wear debris and metal ions. It is believed that these particles produced by wearing or corrosion have adverse effects on the surrounding tissue. This maybe the reasons causing prothesis loosening. From the immunological conception, human leukocytes were cultured with metal ions of various concentrations. The metal ions that we were concerning include cobalt, chromium, molybdenum, nickel, titanium, aluminum, and vanadium ions. The ion concentrations selected were O.1ppm, 1.Oppm, 1Oppm. The effects of ions types and ion concentrations were evaluated by the count of cell numbers and the concentrations of bone resorption substances, IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α after 1 hour, 3 hours, 1 day, 3 days and 7 days stimulation. The results showed that the cobalt ion was the most toxic substance to leukocytes. The cobalt ion stimulated cells secreting more TNF- a. (released by neutrophils), IL-I 13 and IL-6 (released by monocytes/macrophages) than the controlled ones. The concentration of TNF- a. secreted by the cobalt stimulated cells was significantly higher than that secreted by the unstimulated controlled group (p<0. 05). Interestingly, when cells were stimulated molybdenum, titanium and vanadium ions, the secretions of TNF-o;, IL-I /3 and IL-6 were significantly lower than those of the controlled groups. In addition, although high concentration (lOppm) metal ions stimulated leukocytes to release bone resorption substances rapidly in the first few hours, the concentrations from cells stimulated by low concentration (O.1ppm) metal ions gradually exceeded those stimulated by 1.0 and lOppm metal ions. To consider the stimulation period, no matter what kind of metal ions stimulated cells, the concentration of bone resorption substances increased to a highest value and then fell down. The higher the metal concentration was, the faster the responses appeared.
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