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Ikeda T, Nakamura K, Kida T, Oku H. Possible roles of anti-type II collagen antibody and innate immunity in the development and progression of diabetic retinopathy. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2022; 260:387-403. [PMID: 34379187 PMCID: PMC8786754 DOI: 10.1007/s00417-021-05342-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2021] [Revised: 07/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The pathogenesis of both diabetic retinopathy (DR) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has recently been considered to involve autoimmunity. Serum and synovial fluid levels of anti-type II collagen antibodies increase early after the onset of RA, thus inducing immune responses and subsequent hydrarthrosis and angiogenesis, which resemble diabetic macular edema and proliferative DR (PDR), respectively. We previously reported that DR is also associated with increased serum levels of anti-type II collagen antibodies. Retinal hypoxia in DR may induce pericytes to express type II collagen, resulting in autoantibody production against type II collagen. As the result of blood-retinal barrier disruption, anti-type II collagen antibodies in the serum come into contact with type II collagen around the retinal vessels. A continued loss of pericytes and type II collagen around the retinal vessels may result in a shift of the immune reaction site from the retina to the vitreous. It has been reported that anti-inflammatory M2 macrophages increased in the vitreous of PDR patients, accompanied by the activation of the NOD-like receptor family pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome, a key regulator of innate immunity. M2 macrophages promote angiogenesis and fibrosis, which might be exacerbated and prolonged by dysregulated innate immunity.
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- Tsunehiko Ikeda
- Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan.
- Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Kaisei Hospital, 1-6-10 Miyahara Yodogawa-ku, Osaka City, Osaka, Japan.
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki City, Osaka, Japan
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Comparison of Compressive Stress-Relaxation Behavior in Osteoarthritic (ICRS Graded) Human Articular Cartilage. Int J Mol Sci 2018; 19:ijms19020413. [PMID: 29385029 PMCID: PMC5855635 DOI: 10.3390/ijms19020413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2017] [Revised: 12/13/2017] [Accepted: 01/25/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common joint disorder found mostly in elderly people. The role of mechanical behavior in the progression of OA is complex and remains unclear. The stress-relaxation behavior of human articular cartilage in clinically defined osteoarthritic stages may have importance in diagnosis and prognosis of OA. In this study we investigated differences in the biomechanical responses among human cartilage of ICRS grades I, II and III using polymer dynamics theory. We collected 24 explants of human articular cartilage (eight each of ICRS grade I, II and III) and acquired stress-relaxation data applying a continuous load on the articular surface of each cartilage explant for 1180 s. We observed a significant decrease in Young’s modulus, stress-relaxation time, and stretching exponent in advanced stages of OA (ICRS grade III). The stretch exponential model speculated that significant loss in hyaluronic acid polymer might be the reason for the loss of proteoglycan in advanced OA. This work encourages further biomechanical modelling of osteoarthritic cartilage utilizing these data as input parameters to enhance the fidelity of computational models aimed at revealing how mechanical behaviors play a role in pathogenesis of OA.
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Lai VK, Nedrelow DS, Lake SP, Kim B, Weiss EM, Tranquillo RT, Barocas VH. Swelling of Collagen-Hyaluronic Acid Co-Gels: An In Vitro Residual Stress Model. Ann Biomed Eng 2016; 44:2984-2993. [PMID: 27150674 PMCID: PMC5045778 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-016-1636-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2016] [Accepted: 04/30/2016] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Tissue-equivalents (TEs), simple model tissues with tunable properties, have been used to explore many features of biological soft tissues. Absent in most formulations however, is the residual stress that arises due to interactions among components with different unloaded levels of stress, which has an important functional role in many biological tissues. To create a pre-stressed model system, co-gels were fabricated from a combination of hyaluronic acid (HA) and reconstituted Type-I collagen (Col). When placed in solutions of varying osmolarity, HA-Col co-gels swell as the HA imbibes water, which in turn stretches (and stresses) the collagen network. In this way, co-gels with residual stress (i.e., collagen fibers in tension and HA in compression) were fabricated. When the three gel types tested here were immersed in hypotonic solutions, pure HA gels swelled the most, followed by HA-Col co-gels; no swelling was observed in pure collagen gels. The greatest swelling rates and swelling ratios occurred in the lowest salt concentration solutions. Tension on the collagen component of HA-Col co-gels was calculated from a stress balance and increased nonlinearly as swelling increased. The swelling experiment results were in good agreement with the stress predicted by a fibril network + non-fibrillar interstitial matrix computational model.
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- Victor K Lai
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 7-105 Nils Hasselmo Hall, 312 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 7-105 Nils Hasselmo Hall, 312 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 7-105 Nils Hasselmo Hall, 312 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 7-105 Nils Hasselmo Hall, 312 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 7-105 Nils Hasselmo Hall, 312 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA.
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Wang N, Xia Y. Anisotropic analysis of multi-component T2 and T1ρ relaxations in achilles tendon by NMR spectroscopy and microscopic MRI. J Magn Reson Imaging 2013; 38:625-33. [PMID: 23349070 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.24012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2012] [Accepted: 12/03/2012] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To study the anisotropic characteristics of both multi-component T2 and T1ρ relaxation times in tendon. MATERIALS AND METHODS T2 and T1ρ were measured in tendon by NMR spectroscopy at different orientations and by microscopic MRI at the magic angle. Several experimental issues in the multi-component relaxation measurements were investigated, including the effects of echo spacing, the resolution of MRI experiments, the influence of the specimen orientations, and the strengths of different spin-lock frequencies in T1ρ experiments. RESULTS Both the values and fractions of T2 in tendon showed significant orientational dependence. The values and fractions of T1ρ strongly depended on both the specimen orientation and the spin-lock strength. The imaging resolution (35-280 μm) had little influence in the T2 experiments. Both the echo spacings (0.6-3.0 ms) in the T2 experiment and the spin-lock strengths (0.5-5 kHz) in the T1ρ experiment affected the quantification of the multi-component relaxation. Up to three T2 and T1ρ components were resolved in tendon. CONCLUSION Multi-component relaxations could be attributed to different populations of water in the tissue. The transitions between a mono-component and multi-component result call for the caution in interpreting the relaxation results.
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- Nian Wang
- Department of Physics and Center for Biomedical Research, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan 48309, USA
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