Effect of interleukin 1 on articular cartilage from young and aged horses and comparison with metabolism of osteoarthritic cartilage

Elisabeth A. Morris From the Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, MA 01536 (Morris) and Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114 (Treadwell).

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The effect of interleukin 1 (il-1) on equine articular cartilage was investigated, using a cartilage explant culture system. Measurement of [35S]O4 incorporation revealed synthesis of matrix proteoglycan by cartilage to be decreased 45, 59.7, and 37.5% after 1, 3, and 5 days, respectively, in culture in the presence of 5 U of il-1/ml. There was no change in proteoglycan degradation as determined by measurement of [35S]O4 release into the culture medium. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of cartilage-conditioned medium indicated that exposure of cartilage to il-1 caused a decrease in total protein synthesis by 45, 68, and 87% after 1, 3, and 5 days, respectively, in culture while selectively inducing synthesis of the 57-kd neutral metalloproteinase stromelysin (matrix metallo-proteinase-3) in young and adult horses. Identification of stromelysin was confirmed by functional characterization and immunoprecipitation. Baseline total protein synthesis, as well as specific synthesis of stromelysin in cartilage from adult and aged horses, was markedly less than that of young horses. The il-1- induced reduction in total protein synthesis may not be a characteristic of equine articular cartilage from affected joints of horses with naturally acquired osteoarthritis as indicated by an overall increase in protein synthesis by osteoarthritic explants.

Introduction of il-1 into an equine articular cartilage explant culture system resulted in decrease of matrix component synthesis and increase in specific degradative enzyme synthesis and activity. Articular cartilage from aged horses had markedly less overall metabolic activity, compared with cartilage from young horses. Articular cartilage from affected joints of horses with naturally acquired osteoarthritis did not have metabolic alterations identical to those of il-1-stimulated normal articular cartilage from the same individual, necessitating reevaluation of the validity of the il-1-induced model of osteoarthritis. Osteoar thritis is a common, naturally acquired disease of horses, and tissue from animals of all ages and stages of osteoarthritis is available. The equine model of osteoarthritis may afford an important means of studying the alterations in articular cartilage metabolism as a function of age and disease severity.

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The effect of interleukin 1 (il-1) on equine articular cartilage was investigated, using a cartilage explant culture system. Measurement of [35S]O4 incorporation revealed synthesis of matrix proteoglycan by cartilage to be decreased 45, 59.7, and 37.5% after 1, 3, and 5 days, respectively, in culture in the presence of 5 U of il-1/ml. There was no change in proteoglycan degradation as determined by measurement of [35S]O4 release into the culture medium. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of cartilage-conditioned medium indicated that exposure of cartilage to il-1 caused a decrease in total protein synthesis by 45, 68, and 87% after 1, 3, and 5 days, respectively, in culture while selectively inducing synthesis of the 57-kd neutral metalloproteinase stromelysin (matrix metallo-proteinase-3) in young and adult horses. Identification of stromelysin was confirmed by functional characterization and immunoprecipitation. Baseline total protein synthesis, as well as specific synthesis of stromelysin in cartilage from adult and aged horses, was markedly less than that of young horses. The il-1- induced reduction in total protein synthesis may not be a characteristic of equine articular cartilage from affected joints of horses with naturally acquired osteoarthritis as indicated by an overall increase in protein synthesis by osteoarthritic explants.

Introduction of il-1 into an equine articular cartilage explant culture system resulted in decrease of matrix component synthesis and increase in specific degradative enzyme synthesis and activity. Articular cartilage from aged horses had markedly less overall metabolic activity, compared with cartilage from young horses. Articular cartilage from affected joints of horses with naturally acquired osteoarthritis did not have metabolic alterations identical to those of il-1-stimulated normal articular cartilage from the same individual, necessitating reevaluation of the validity of the il-1-induced model of osteoarthritis. Osteoar thritis is a common, naturally acquired disease of horses, and tissue from animals of all ages and stages of osteoarthritis is available. The equine model of osteoarthritis may afford an important means of studying the alterations in articular cartilage metabolism as a function of age and disease severity.

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