• Department of Rehabilitation, the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410000, P. R. China;
ZHANG Changjie, Email: zcj3483@126.com
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Objective To investigate the effect of inhibiting autotaxin (ATX)-lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) pathway on the cartilage of knee osteoarthritis in rats.Methods Primary chondrocytes within three generations of Sprague-Dawley rats (8 weeks old, male) were randomly divided into 6 groups, including blank control group, model group, 1 μmol/L PF-8380 group, 10 μmol/L PF-8380 group, 1 μmol/L Ki16425 group, and 10 μmol/L Ki16425 group. Except for the blank control group, the other groups were modeled with osteoarthritis using interleukin-1β (10 ng/mL, 24 h), and then the experimental groups, i.e., 1 μmol/L PF-8380 group, 10 μmol/L PF-8380 group, 1 μmol/L Ki16425 group, and 10 μmol/L Ki16425 group, were intervened with 1, 10 μmol/L PF-8380 (ATX inhibitor) and 1, 10 μmol/L Ki16425 (LPA receptor antagonist) for 24 h, respectively. immunocytochemistry staining was used to determine the expression of type Ⅱ collagen (Col Ⅱ) in cytoplasm, and Western Blot was used to determine the expression of ATX, LPA, and matrix metalloproteinase-13 (MMP-13) in chondrocytes.Results Compared with the blank control group, the average absorbance of Col Ⅱ in chondrocytes in the model group was significantly reduced (0.003 9±0.000 8 vs. 0.110 0± 0.009 0, P<0.05). The expression levels of ATX, LPA, and MMP-13 in chondrocytes in the model group, 1 μmol/L PF-8380 group, 10 μmol/L PF-8380 group, and 1 μmol/L Ki16425 group were significantly higher than those in the blank control group, while the expression levels of ATX, LPA, and MMP-13 in the 10 μmol/L Ki16425 group had no significant difference with those in the blank control group; the expression levels of ATX, LPA, and MMP-13 in the model group, 10 μmol/L PF-8380 group, and 1 μmol/L PF-8380 group decreased in order; the expression levels of ATX, LPA, and MMP-13 in the model group, 1 μmol/L Ki16425 group, and 10 μmol/L Ki16425 group decreased in order.Conclusion Inhibiting ATX-LPA pathway may inhibit the up-regulation of MMP-13 levels in articular cartilage of osteoarthritis in rats to reduce the damage of cartilage.

Citation: LI Xue, ZHANG Changjie. Effect of autotaxin-lysophosphatidic acid pathway on matrix metalloproteinase-13 in articular cartilage of knee osteoarthritis in rats. West China Medical Journal, 2020, 35(5): 550-554. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.202003505 Copy

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