Abstract:
:Inflammation plays an important role in symptomatic intervertebral disc degeneration and is associated with the production of neurotrophins in sensitizing innervation into the disc. The use of high molecular weight (HMw) hyaluronic acid (HA) hydrogels offers a potential therapeutic biomaterial for nucleus pulposus (NP) regeneration as it exerts an anti-inflammatory effect and provides a microenvironment that is more suitable for NP. Therefore, it was hypothesized that cross-linked HMw HA hydrogels modulate the inflammatory receptor of IL-1R1, MyD88 and neurotrophin expression of nerve growth factor (NGF) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in an in vitro inflammation model of NP. HA cross-linking was optimized using various concentrations of 4-arm PEG-amine by determination of free carboxyl groups of HA and unreacted free amine groups of PEG-amine. The optimally cross-linked HA hydrogels were characterized for hydrolytic stability, enzymatic degradation and cytotoxicity on NP cells. The therapeutic effect of HA hydrogels was further investigated in IL-1β induced inflammation on NP cell cultures and the mechanism of HA by examining the expression of cell surface receptor of CD44. Hydrogel was optimally cross-linked at 75 mM PEG, stable in phosphate buffered saline, and showed greater than 40% resistance to enzymatic degradation. No cytotoxic effect of NP cells was observed in the presence of hydrogels for 1, 3, and 7 days. IL-1R1 and MyD88 were significantly suppressed. Additionally, NGF and BDNF mRNA were down-regulated after treatment with cross-linked HA hydrogel. Possible protective mechanism of HA is shown by high expression of CD44 receptor of NP cells after HA treatment in which suggest the binding of HA to CD44 receptor and prevent NP cells from further undergoing inflammation. These results indicate that optimally stabilized cross-linked HMw HA hydrogel has a therapeutic effect in response to inflammation-associated pain and becomes an ideal matrices hydrogel for NP regeneration.
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Biomacromoleculesjournal_title
Biomacromoleculesauthors
Isa IL,Srivastava A,Tiernan D,Owens P,Rooney P,Dockery P,Pandit Adoi
10.1021/acs.biomac.5b00168subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2015-06-08 00:00:00pages
1714-25issue
6eissn
1525-7797issn
1526-4602journal_volume
16pub_type
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