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OSTEOARTHRITIS AND CARTILAGE
Volume 12, Issue 7, Pages 577-585Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.joca.2004.04.006
Keywords
articular cartilage; cell death; mechanical damage; nitric oxide
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- NIAMS NIH HHS [R01 AR47558] Funding Source: Medline
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Over 21 days in culture, cell death spreads, both radially and transversely, from loaded to surrounding cartilage. This spread was prevented by physical separation and separate culture post-impact. Objective: One aim was to determine if nitric oxide (NO) is the intercellular signal mediating cell death. Another aim was to clarify the nature of the cell death, whether caspase mediated apoptosis or necrosis. Design: Cyclic impacts were applied to the central 2 mm core of 4 mm canine articular cartilage discs. Post-impact culturing was for 21 days in the presence or absence of the iNOS inhibitor, L-NAME, or the broad-spectrum caspase inhibitor, Z-VAD FMK. Cell death was quantified using the TUNEL assay. Culture media were collected every 2 days for measurements of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) and NO release. Results: Cell death spread from the loaded core into the surrounding ring over 21 days in culture. Although L-NAME significantly reduced nitrite release into the culture media of both loaded and control cartilage, the spread of cell death was not prevented. Neither was the spread of cell death prevented by Z-VAD FMK. Conclusions: These data indicate that NO is not acting as an intercellular signalling factor in this in vitro system and that the cell death postimpact is not caspase mediated. (C) 2004 OsteoArthritis Research Society International. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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