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JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH
Volume 59, Issue 9, Pages 1763-1770Publisher
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DOI: 10.1194/jlr.P085118
Keywords
lipids; arachidonic acid; eicosanoids; inflammation; methods; high-performance liquid chromatography; lipidomics
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- Arthritis Research UK [18769]
- Medical Research Council [MR/M016560/1]
- National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre
- D-BOARD Consortium - European Commission [305815]
- MRC [MR/M016560/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- British Heart Foundation [SP/14/8/31352] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [MR/M016560/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Omega-6 FAs are inflammatory mediators that are increased in joints with osteoarthritis (OA), but their association with OA progression is not yet well defined. To investigate the relationship between omega-6 FAs and knee OA, we measured with LC-MS the levels of 22 omega-6 lipids (arachidonic acid, linoleic acid, and 20 oxylipins) in synovial fluid (SF) from 112 knees of 102 individuals (58 with knee OA; 44 controls). We hypothesized that oxylipin metabolites would increase in OA knee SF and with radiographically progressive disease. We validated results by comparing samples from affected and unaffected knees in 10 individuals with unilateral OA. In adjusted analysis, SF levels of three omega-6 oxylipins [prostaglandin D2, 11,12-dihydroxyeicosatrienoic acid (DHET), and 14,15-DHET] were associated with OA. Of these, 11,12-DHET and 14,15-DHET were higher in affected versus unaffected knees of people with unilateral disease (P < 0.014 and P < 0.003, respectively). Levels of these and 8,9-DHET were also associated with radiographic progression over 3.3 years in 87 individuals. Circulating levels of all three were associated with gene variants at the soluble epoxide hydrolase enzyme. Lipidomic profiling in SF identified an additional inflammatory pathway associated with knee OA and radiographic progression.
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