Journal
LIPIDS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12944-019-1008-5
Keywords
Anterior cruciate ligament transection; Knee joint; N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids; N-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids; Oryctolagus cuniculus; Osteoarthritis
Funding
- Academy of Finland [286526, 303786]
- Sigrid Juselius Foundation
- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) [336267]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Canada Research Chairs Program
- Killam Foundation
- University of Eastern Finland
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
- Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation
- Academy of Finland (AKA) [303786, 303786] Funding Source: Academy of Finland (AKA)
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Background: The infrapatellar fat pad (IFP) of the knee joint has received lots of attention recently due to its emerging role in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA), where it displays an inflammatory phenotype. The aim of the present study was to examine the infrapatellar fatty acid (FA) composition in a rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) model of early OA created by anterior cruciate ligament transection (ACLT). Methods: OA was induced randomly in the left or right knee joint of skeletally mature New Zealand White rabbits by ACLT, while the contralateral knee was left intact. A separate group of unoperated rabbits served as controls. The IFP of the ACLT, contralateral, and control knees were harvested following euthanasia 2 or 8 weeks post-ACLT and their FA composition was determined with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Results: The n-3/n-6 polyunsaturated FA (PUFA) ratio shifted in a pro-inflammatory direction after ACLT, already observed 2 weeks after the operation (0.200 +/- 0.008 vs. 0.18 +/- 0.009). At 8 weeks, the FA profile of the ACLT group was characterized with increased percentages of 20:4n-6 (0.44 +/- 0.064 vs. 0.98 +/- 0.339 mol-%) and 22:6n-3 (0.03 +/- 0.014 vs. 0.07 +/- 0.015 mol-%) and with decreased monounsaturated FA (MUFA) sums (37.19 +/- 1.586 vs. 33.20 +/- 1.068 mol-%) and n-3/n-6 PUFA ratios (0.20 +/- 0.008 vs. 0.17 +/- 0.008). The FA signature of the contralateral knees resembled that of the unoperated controls in most aspects, but had increased proportions of total n-3 PUFA and reduced MUFA sums. Conclusions: These findings provide novel information on the effects of early OA on the infrapatellar FA profile in the rabbit ACLT model. The reduction in the n-3/n-6 PUFA ratio of the IFP is in concordance with the inflammation and cartilage degradation in early OA and could contribute to disease pathogenesis.
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