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PHYSIOLOGICAL STRETCHING INDUCES A DIFFERENTIAL EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX GENE EXPRESSION RESPONSE IN ACETABULAR LABRUM CELLS

Journal

EUROPEAN CELLS & MATERIALS
Volume 44, Issue -, Pages 90-100

Publisher

AO RESEARCH INSTITUTE DAVOS-ARI
DOI: 10.22203/eCM.v044a06

Keywords

Labrum; hip; tissue remodelling; regeneration; extracellular matrix organisation; mechanical; loading; stretching; cyclic tensile strain; mechanobiology; gene expression

Funding

  1. Swiss National Science Foundation [205321-176023]
  2. Early Postdoc Mobility fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation
  3. Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [205321_176023] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

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The study found that physiological stretching can regulate gene expression and play an important role in the homeostasis and regeneration of the acetabular labrum tissue.
The acetabular labrum is a fibrocartilaginous ring surrounding the acetabulum and is important for hip stability and contact pressure dissipation through a sealing function. Injury of the labrum may contribute to hip-joint degeneration and development of secondary osteoarthritis. Understanding how extracellular matrix (ECM) production and remodelling is regulated is of key importance for successful tissue restoration. The present study hypothesised that physiological stretching enhanced the metabolic activity and altered the ECM gene expression in labrum cells. Primary bovine labrum cells were physiologically stretched for up to 5 d. 24 h after the last stretch cycle, changes in metabolic activity were measured using the PrestoBlueTM HS Cell Viability Reagent and ECM gene expression was examined using the quantitative polymerase chain reaction method. Targets of interest were further investigated using immunofluorescence and enzymelinked immunosorbent assay. Metabolic activity was not affected by the stretching (0.9746 +/- 0.0614, p > 0.05). Physiological stretching upregulated decorin (DCN) (1.8548 +/- 0.4883, p = 0.002) as well as proteoglycan 4 (PRG4) (1.7714 +/- 0.6600, p = 0.029) and downregulated biglycan (BGN) (0.7018 + 0.1567, p = 0.008), cartilage oligomeric matrix protein (COMP) (0.5747 +/- 0.2650, p = 0.029), fibronectin (FN1) (0.5832 +/- 0.0996, p < 0.001) and spondin 1 (SPON1) (0.6282 +/- 0.3624, p = 0.044) gene expression. No difference in PRG4 and DCN abundance or release could be measured. The here identified mechanosensitive targets are known to play relevant roles in tissue organisation. Therefore, physiological stretching might play a role in labrum tissue homeostasis and regeneration.

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