Figure 3

Reduced length of the proliferative and hypertrophic zones under PI3K inhibition. (A) E15.5 tibiae treated for 6 days with LY294002 or DMSO were fixed, paraffin embedded and sectioned. Hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) staining shows decreased length of hypertrophic (HZ) and proliferative zones (PZ) and increased resting zone (RZ) length in the LY294002 treated bones. (B) Measurements of three zones of the growth plate confirmed the reduction in length for the HZ and PZ in the LY294002 treated tibiae, but the RZ length zone was not found to be significantly increased. (C) The HZ length expressed as ratio from the entire growth plate length was found to be significantly decreases and the RZ significantly increased in the case of LY294002 treatment. The PZ ratio was found to be similar between the treatments.