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Vascular refilling coefficient is not a good marker of whole-body capillary hydraulic conductivity in hemodialysis patients: insights from a simulation study. Sci Rep 2022; 12:15277. [PMID: 36088359 PMCID: PMC9464211 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-16826-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/18/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Refilling of the vascular space through absorption of interstitial fluid by micro vessels is a crucial mechanism for maintaining hemodynamic stability during hemodialysis (HD) and allowing excess fluid to be removed from body tissues. The rate of vascular refilling depends on the imbalance between the Starling forces acting across the capillary walls as well as on their hydraulic conductivity and total surface area. Various approaches have been proposed to assess the vascular refilling process during HD, including the so-called refilling coefficient (Kr) that describes the rate of vascular refilling per changes in plasma oncotic pressure, assuming that other Starling forces and the flow of lymph remain constant during HD. Several studies have shown that Kr decreases exponentially during HD, which was attributed to a dialysis-induced decrease in the whole-body capillary hydraulic conductivity (LpS). Here, we employ a lumped-parameter mathematical model of the cardiovascular system and water and solute transport between the main body fluid compartments to assess the impact of all Starling forces and the flow of lymph on vascular refilling during HD in order to explain the reasons behind the observed intradialytic decrease in Kr. We simulated several HD sessions in a virtual patient with different blood priming procedures, ultrafiltration rates, session durations, and constant or variable levels of LpS. We show that the intradialytic decrease in Kr is not associated with a possible reduction of LpS but results from the inherent assumption that plasma oncotic pressure is the only variable Starling force during HD, whereas in fact other Starling forces, in particular the oncotic pressure of the interstitial fluid, have an important impact on the transcapillary fluid exchange during HD. We conclude that Kr is not a good marker of LpS and should not be used to guide fluid removal during HD or to assess the fluid status of dialysis patients.
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Otsuka Y, Minamisawa T. Evaluation of intermolecular association of glycosaminoglycan oligosaccharides using nanoelectrospray ionization mass spectrometry. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2015; 21:669-678. [PMID: 26353989 DOI: 10.1255/ejms.1376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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This study examines the non-covalent interactions between glycosaminoglycan (GAG) oligosaccharides using nanoelectrospray ionization mass spectrometry (nanoESI-MS). It is the first time that interactions between oligosaccharides have been observed using MS. The importance of interactions between GAGs has recently attracted much interest because they are related to biological functions. For instance, hyaluronic acid (HA) is known to associate with chondroitin sulfates (CSs), although the details of the interaction remain unclear. In general, non-covalent interactions between glycans are too weak to detect by general means. In this work, we applied nanoESI-MS with high sensitivity, which is widely used to observe non-covalent interactions, to investigate the interaction between HA and CSs. HA and CS oligosaccharides are used to discuss the results in a simplified manner. Our approach is aimed at interpreting the behavior of GAG polysaccharides from the information obtained using the oligosaccharides. HA and CS tetrasaccharides were demonstrated to associate to form heterodimer ions that were easily detected using nanoESI-MS. We also determined the stoichiometry of the interaction and calculated the K(d) values of the interactions between HA and CS tetrasaccharides. How these structures affect the strength and stability of the non-covalent complexes is discussed. Further study of the interactions between HA and CS oligosaccharides will clarify the biological meaning of the coexistence of HA and CS in body fluids and tissues.
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- Yuya Otsuka
- Central Research Laboratories, Seikagaku Corporation, 1253, Tateno 3-chome, Higashiyamato-shi, Tokyo, 207-0021, Japan.
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- Central Research Laboratories, Seikagaku Corporation, 1253, Tateno 3-chome, Higashiyamato-shi, Tokyo, 207-0021, Japan.
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Irrechukwu ON, Von Thaer S, Frank EH, Lin PC, Reiter DA, Grodzinsky AJ, Spencer RG. Prediction of cartilage compressive modulus using multiexponential analysis of T(2) relaxation data and support vector regression. NMR IN BIOMEDICINE 2014; 27:468-77. [PMID: 24519878 PMCID: PMC4608539 DOI: 10.1002/nbm.3083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2013] [Revised: 12/04/2013] [Accepted: 01/07/2014] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Evaluation of mechanical characteristics of cartilage by magnetic resonance imaging would provide a noninvasive measure of tissue quality both for tissue engineering and when monitoring clinical response to therapeutic interventions for cartilage degradation. We use results from multiexponential transverse relaxation analysis to predict equilibrium and dynamic stiffness of control and degraded bovine nasal cartilage, a biochemical model for articular cartilage. Sulfated glycosaminoglycan concentration/wet weight (ww) and equilibrium and dynamic stiffness decreased with degradation from 103.6 ± 37.0 µg/mg ww, 1.71 ± 1.10 MPa and 15.3 ± 6.7 MPa in controls to 8.25 ± 2.4 µg/mg ww, 0.015 ± 0.006 MPa and 0.89 ± 0.25MPa, respectively, in severely degraded explants. Magnetic resonance measurements were performed on cartilage explants at 4 °C in a 9.4 T wide-bore NMR spectrometer using a Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill sequence. Multiexponential T2 analysis revealed four water compartments with T2 values of approximately 0.14, 3, 40 and 150 ms, with corresponding weight fractions of approximately 3, 2, 4 and 91%. Correlations between weight fractions and stiffness based on conventional univariate and multiple linear regressions exhibited a maximum r(2) of 0.65, while those based on support vector regression (SVR) had a maximum r(2) value of 0.90. These results indicate that (i) compartment weight fractions derived from multiexponential analysis reflect cartilage stiffness and (ii) SVR-based multivariate regression exhibits greatly improved accuracy in predicting mechanical properties as compared with conventional regression.
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- Onyi N. Irrechukwu
- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore MD 21224
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore MD 21224
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore MD 21224
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore MD 21224
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore MD 21224
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Roberts MA, Mendez U, Gilbert RJ, Keim AP, Goldman J. Increased hyaluronan expression at distinct time points in acute lymphedema. Lymphat Res Biol 2013; 10:122-8. [PMID: 22984909 DOI: 10.1089/lrb.2012.0001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Lymphatic dysfunction in lymphedema results in chronic accumulation of interstitial fluid and life-long tissue swelling. In the absence of restored lymphatic drainage via adequate lymphangiogenesis, the interstitial environment can remodel in ways that decrease the elevated interstitial stress. Presently, relatively little is known about the glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) that become upregulated in the interstitium during lymphedema. We employed a mouse tail model of acute lymphedema that reproduces important features of the chronic human condition to establish a relationship between hyaluronan (HA) and sulfated GAG concentration with tissue swelling. We found that HA was upregulated by tissue injury at day 5 and became upregulated again by skin swelling (HA content increasing by 27% relative to controls at days 15 and 20). Surprisingly, the second phase of HA expression was associated with the declining phase of the tail skin swelling (tail diameter significantly decreasing by 17% from day 10 peak to day 20), demonstrating that HA is upregulated by tissue swelling and may help to counteract the edema in the mouse tail. This finding was confirmed by intradermal injection of an HA degrading enzyme (hyaluronidase) to the swollen tail, which was found to worsen the tail swelling. Sulfated GAGs, including chondroitin sulfate (CS), were not regulated by tissue swelling. The results demonstrate that HA, but not sulfated GAGs, is upregulated in the interstitium by acute tissue swelling. We speculate that HA expression during lymphedema may be part of a natural adaptive mechanism of the interstitial environment to reduce capillary filtration and increase interstitial fluid outflow following lymphatic obstruction and fluid accumulation.
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- Melissa A Roberts
- Biomedical Engineering Department, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan 49931, USA
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Szewczyk M, Drzewinska J, Dzmitruk V, Shcharbin D, Klajnert B, Appelhans D, Bryszewska M. Stability of dendriplexes formed by anti-HIV genetic material and poly(propylene imine) dendrimers in the presence of glucosaminoglycans. J Phys Chem B 2012. [PMID: 23199071 DOI: 10.1021/jp304449v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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There are several barriers to the application of dendriplexes formed by poly(propylene imine) dendrimers and genetic material for gene therapy. One limitation is their interaction with extracellular matrix components such as glucosaminoglycans. These can displace the genetic material from the dendriplexes, affecting their transfection activity. In this study, we analyzed the interaction between dendriplexes and the four main glucosaminoglycans (heparin, heparan sulfate, chondroitin sulfate, and hyaluronic acid) by fluorescence polarization and gel electrophoresis. Dendriplexes were formed by combining three anti-HIV antisense oligodeoxynucleotides with three poly(propylene imine) dendrimers of the fourth generation: unmodified and partially modified with maltose and maltotriose (open shell glycodendrimers). The data showed that the effect of glucosaminoglycans on dendriplexes depends on the glucosaminoglycan type and the oligosaccharide serving as the surface group of the dendrimer. Heparin at physiological concentrations destroys dendriplexes formed by open shell glycodendrimers, but dendriplexes based on unmodified poly(propylene imine) dendrimers are stable in its presence. The other glucosaminoglycans at physiological concentrations cannot destroy dendriplexes formed by any of the dendrimers studied.
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- Michal Szewczyk
- Department of General Biophysics, University of Lodz, Pomorska 141/143, 90-237 Lodz, Poland
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Irrechukwu ON, Reiter DA, Lin PC, Roque RA, Fishbein KW, Spencer RG. Characterization of engineered cartilage constructs using multiexponential T₂ relaxation analysis and support vector regression. Tissue Eng Part C Methods 2012; 18:433-43. [PMID: 22166112 DOI: 10.1089/ten.tec.2011.0509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022] Open
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Increased sensitivity in the characterization of cartilage matrix status by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, through the identification of surrogate markers for tissue quality, would be of great use in the noninvasive evaluation of engineered cartilage. Recent advances in MR evaluation of cartilage include multiexponential and multiparametric analysis, which we now extend to engineered cartilage. We studied constructs which developed from chondrocytes seeded in collagen hydrogels. MR measurements of transverse relaxation times were performed on samples after 1, 2, 3, and 4 weeks of development. Corresponding biochemical measurements of sulfated glycosaminoglycan (sGAG) were also performed. sGAG per wet weight increased from 7.74±1.34 μg/mg in week 1 to 21.06±4.14 μg/mg in week 4. Using multiexponential T₂ analysis, we detected at least three distinct water compartments, with T₂ values and weight fractions of (45 ms, 3%), (200 ms, 4%), and (500 ms, 97%), respectively. These values are consistent with known properties of engineered cartilage and previous studies of native cartilage. Correlations between sGAG and MR measurements were examined using conventional univariate analysis with T₂ data from monoexponential fits with individual multiexponential compartment fractions and sums of these fractions, through multiple linear regression based on linear combinations of fractions, and, finally, with multivariate analysis using the support vector regression (SVR) formalism. The phenomenological relationship between T₂ from monoexponential fitting and sGAG exhibited a correlation coefficient of r²=0.56, comparable to the more physically motivated correlations between individual fractions or sums of fractions and sGAG; the correlation based on the sum of the two proteoglycan-associated fractions was r²=0.58. Correlations between measured sGAG and those calculated using standard linear regression were more modest, with r² in the range 0.43-0.54. However, correlations using SVR exhibited r² values in the range 0.68-0.93. These results indicate that the SVR-based multivariate approach was able to determine tissue sGAG with substantially higher accuracy than conventional monoexponential T₂ measurements or conventional regression modeling based on water fractions. This combined technique, in which the results of multiexponential analysis are examined with multivariate statistical techniques, holds the potential to greatly improve the accuracy of cartilage matrix characterization in engineered constructs using noninvasive MR data.
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- Onyi N Irrechukwu
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Section, Gerontology Research Center, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health , Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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Clegg TE, Caborn D, Mauffrey C. Viscosupplementation with hyaluronic acid in the treatment for cartilage lesions: a review of current evidence and future directions. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY AND TRAUMATOLOGY 2012; 23:119-24. [PMID: 23412441 DOI: 10.1007/s00590-012-0940-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2011] [Accepted: 01/07/2012] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Diseases involving the articular cartilage are one of the leading causes of physical impairment among the adult population. While surgical technique and advancement have allowed us effective means at treating these diseases, this is not without significant risk and morbidity. With a very solid safety profile, viscosupplementation with hyaluronic acid (HA) derivatives has become an excellent modality for treating diseased articular cartilage. Recent literature supports the use of HA not only in the management of the pain associated with osteoarthritis but also as a disease-modifying agent as well. Further studies have started to define exciting new roles for viscosupplementation in the treatment for acute injuries to the joint microenvironment.
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- Travis E Clegg
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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Hydraulic resistance of interstitium is of major importance in body fluid distribution. In the synovial lining it is vital for the retention of intra-articular fluid, and is attributed chiefly to the network of interstitial biopolymers occupying intercellular gaps in the tissue. Selective removal of synovial hyaluronan (HA) by protease-free hyaluronate lyase results in an almost 10x increase in synovial hydraulic permeability from 0.48 +/- 0.24 microL min(-1) cm H2O (control) to 4.56 +/- 0.40 microL min(-1) cm H2O (mean +/- SD, n = 6 rabbits, p < .001, t test) leading to the hypothesis that hyaluronan plays a major role in the organization of interstitial matrix structure. To test whether removal of hyaluronan causes significant changes in synovial ultrastructure, morphometry of hyaluronidase-treated synovium was carried out. Following hyaluronidase, the thickness of the synovial lining was reduced from 13.0 +/- 1.6 microm (control) to 10.6 +/- 1.6 microm (mean +/- SD throughout, n = 50 measurements per rabbit, 6 rabbits. p < .001, t test). This was accompanied by a significant reduction of synovial interstitial volume fraction from 76.2 +/- 20.6% (control) to 67.04 +/- 24.94% (p < .001, t test), and an increase in collagen bundle volume as a fraction of interstitial volume from 40.75 +/- 4.97% (control) tissue to 48.77 +/- 11.72% (p < .0001, t test). The findings indicate that the removal of hyaluronan chains leads to morphological disruption. Thus, hyaluronan chains play a major role in the organization of synovial structure. The observed morphological changes are insufficiently large to explain fully the great rise in hydraulic permeability observed on HA removal. The latter is likely to be due to disruption of tertiary architecture at the molecular organization level.
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- Peter J Coleman
- Division of Physiology, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK.
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Sabaratnam S, Mason RM, Levick JR. Hyaluronan molecular reflection by synovial lining is concentration dependent and reduced in dilute effusions in a rabbit model. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 54:1673-81. [PMID: 16646039 DOI: 10.1002/art.21803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Hyaluronan (HA) has a major role in regulating synovial fluid volume. This role depends on the synovium functioning as an ultrafilter that reflects HA during trans-synovial fluid drainage. Reflection boosts the HA concentration on the membrane surface, leading to osmotic retention of synovial fluid ("buffering"). In arthritic effusions, however, HA concentration and osmotic buffering are greatly reduced. We tested the hypothesis that reflection is reduced (escape increased) when the HA concentration falls below the molecular entanglement concentration (C*). METHODS HA at 0.2 mg/ml (<C*) or 1.5 mg/ml (>C*) was infused continuously into rabbit knee joints to set up a steady trans-synovial filtration. Joint-derived lymph was sampled over 3 hours, and subsynovial fluid was sampled at the end of the 3-hour period. HA was quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography to evaluate the reflected fraction. C* was determined by viscometry. RESULTS Viscometry showed that 0.2 mg/ml HA was below C* and 1.5 mg/ml was above it. At 0.2 mg/ml, the mean +/- SEM HA reflected fraction was 0.66 +/- 0.04 (n = 7). At 1.5 mg/ml the reflection increased to 0.88 +/- 0.04 (n = 5) (P < 0.005). HA permeation increased almost 3-fold, from 12% to 34%, at the lower concentration. CONCLUSION Chain-chain interaction at >C* increases effective molecular domain size and hence HA reflection, promoting effective conservation of synovial fluid in normal joints. HA can fall below C* (approximately 1 mg/ml) in arthritic effusions, promoting loss of HA. The attendant failure of outflow buffering facilitates fluid escape and periarticular edema.
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- S Sabaratnam
- St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, UK
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Sabaratnam S, Arunan V, Coleman PJ, Mason RM, Levick JR. Size selectivity of hyaluronan molecular sieving by extracellular matrix in rabbit synovial joints. J Physiol 2005; 567:569-81. [PMID: 15961430 PMCID: PMC1474196 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.088906] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2005] [Accepted: 06/13/2005] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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In joint fluid the polymer hyaluronan (HA) confers viscous lubrication and greatly attenuates trans-synovial fluid loss (outflow buffering). Outflow buffering arises from the molecular sieving (reflection) and concentration polarization of HA at the synovial membrane surface. Outflow buffering declines if HA chain length is reduced, as in arthritis, and this has been attributed to reduced HA reflection. This was tested directly in the present study. Infused solutions of HA of approximately 2200 kDa (HA2000, 0.2 mg ml(-1)) or approximately 500 kDa (HA500, 0.2 mg ml(-1)) or approximately 140 kDa (HA140, 0.2-4.0 mg ml(-1)) were filtered across the synovial lining of the knee joint cavity of anaesthetized rabbits at a constant rate, along with a freely permeating reference solute, 20 kDa fluorescein-dextran (FD20). After a priming period the femoral lymph was sampled over 3 h. Mixed intra-articular (i.a.) fluid and subsynovial fluid were sampled at the end. Fluids were analysed by gel exclusion chromatography. The trans-synovial concentration profile was found to depend on polymer size. The i.a. concentration of HA2000 increased substantially relative to infusate and the subsynovial and lymph concentrations fell substantially. For HA500 and HA140 the trans-synovial concentration gradients were less pronounced, and absent for FD. The reflected fractions for HA2000, HA500 and HA140 across the cavity-to-lymph barrier were 0.65 +/- 0.05 (n = 10), 0.43 +/- 0.09 (n = 3) and 0.19 +/- 0.05 (n = 7), respectively, at matched filtration rates (P < 0.0001, analysis of variance). Reflected fractions calculated from HA i.a. accumulation or subsynovial dilution showed the same trend. The results demonstrate size-selective molecular sieving by the synovial extracellular matrix, equivalent to steric exclusion from cylindrical pores of radius 33-59 nm. The findings underpin the concentration polarization-outflow buffering theory and indicate that reduced HA chain length in arthritis exacerbates lubricant loss from a joint.
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- S Sabaratnam
- Physiology, Basic Medical Sciences, St. George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE, UK
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Adamson RH, Lenz JF, Zhang X, Adamson GN, Weinbaum S, Curry FE. Oncotic pressures opposing filtration across non-fenestrated rat microvessels. J Physiol 2004; 557:889-907. [PMID: 15073281 PMCID: PMC1665140 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.058255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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We hypothesized that ultrafiltrate crossing the luminal endothelial glycocalyx through infrequent discontinuities (gaps) in the tight junction (TJ) strand of endothelial clefts reduces albumin diffusive flux from tissue into the 'protected region' of the cleft on the luminal side of the TJ. Thus, the effective oncotic pressure difference (sigma black triangle down pi) opposing filtration is greater than that measured between lumen and interstitial fluid. To test this we measured sigma black triangle down pi across rat mesenteric microvessels perfused with albumin (50 mg ml(-1)) with and without interstitial albumin at the same concentration within a few micrometres of the endothelium as demonstrated by confocal microscopy. We found sigma black triangle down pi was near 70% of luminal oncotic pressure when the tissue concentration equalled that in the lumen. We determined size and frequency of TJ strand gaps in endothelial clefts using serial section electron microscopy. We found nine gaps in the reconstructed clefts having mean spacing of 3.59 microm and mean length of 315 nm. The mean depth of the TJ strand near gaps was 67 nm and the mean cleft path length from lumen to interstitium was 411 nm. With these parameters our three-dimensional hydrodynamic model confirmed that fluid velocity was high at gaps in the TJ strand so that even at relatively low hydraulic pressures the albumin concentration on the tissue side of the glycocalyx was significantly lower than in the interstitium. The results conform to the hypothesis that colloid osmotic forces opposing filtration across non-fenestrated continuous capillaries are developed across the endothelial glycocalyx and that the oncotic pressure of interstitial fluid does not directly determine fluid balance across microvascular endothelium.
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- R H Adamson
- Department of Human Physiology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
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Scott JE. Elasticity in extracellular matrix 'shape modules' of tendon, cartilage, etc. A sliding proteoglycan-filament model. J Physiol 2003; 553:335-43. [PMID: 12923209 PMCID: PMC2343561 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.050179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 191] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Connective tissues (CTs), which define bodily shape, must respond quickly, robustly and reversibly to deformations caused by internal and external stresses. Fibrillar (elastin, collagen) elasticity under tension depends on molecular and supramolecular mechanisms. A second intra-/inter-molecular pair, involving proteoglycans (PGs), is proposed to cope with compressive stresses. PG interfibrillar bridges ('shape modules'), supramolecular structures ubiquitously distributed throughout CT extracellular matrices (ECMs), are examined for potential elastic properties. L-iduronate residues in shape module decoran PGs are suggested to be molecular springs, cycling through alternative conformations. On a larger scale, anionic glycosaminoglycan (AGAG) interfibrillar bridges in shape modules are postulated to take part in a sliding filament (dashpot-like) process, which converts local compressions into disseminated tensile strains. The elasticity of fibrils and AGAGs, manifest at molecular and larger-scale levels, provides a graduated and smooth response to stresses of varying degrees. NMR and rheo NMR, computer modelling, electron histochemical, biophysical and chemical morphological evidence for the proposals is reviewed.
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- J E Scott
- Deptartment of Chemical Morphology, Manchester University Medical School, Manchester M13 9PT, UK.
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Sabaratnam S, Mason RM, Levick JR. Molecular sieving of hyaluronan by synovial interstitial matrix and lymphatic capillary endothelium evaluated by lymph analysis in rabbits. Microvasc Res 2003; 66:227-36. [PMID: 14609529 DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2003.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Synovial fluid hyaluronan (HA) profoundly buffers fluid loss from joints. This is attributed to the osmotic pressure of HA reflected by the joint lining. The aims were to quantify HA sieving during fluid drainage from joint to lymphatics and to compare the contributions of the synovial lining and lymphatic endothelium to sieving. HA (2100 kDa) and fluorescein-dextran (FD, 20 kDa) were infused under constant pressure into the knee cavity in anaesthetised rabbits. Samples were taken of femoral lymph and, after approximately 3-h transsynovial filtration, subsynovial fluid and mixed intra-articular fluid. [HA] and [FD] were analysed by HPLC and reflection was calculated as one minus transmitted fraction. Subsynovial and lymph [HA] were 16 and 12% of intra-articular [HA], which increased to 2.6 times infusate [HA] (P < 0.001, ANOVA, n = 19). [FD] was not significantly changed in infusate, aspirate, and subsynovial fluid but fell to 62% in femoral lymph due to dilution by skin/muscle lymph. The HA reflected fraction for the cavity-to-lymph barrier, R(lymph), was 0.54 +/- 0.03 (n = 82, mean +/- SEM), compared with 0.51 +/- 0.07 for cavity-to-subsynovium (R(syn), P > 0.05, Bonferroni) and 0.07 +/- 0.18 for subynovium-to-lymph (R(endo), P < 0.0001, Bonferroni). Lymphatic capillary endothelial reflection R(endo) was not significantly different from zero (one-sample t test). It is concluded that HA is partially sieved out of fluid leaving the joint cavity, and the sieve is the synovial lining interstitial matrix, not lymphatic capillary endothelium.
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- S Sabaratnam
- Department of Physiology, St. George's Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE, UK
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