Cartilage Arthritis Flashcards
Which articular joints does arthritis occur in hyaline cartilage breakdown
Hip and knee joints
What is osteoarthritis
Loss of cartilage ecm and has a chondrogenic phenotype
Induced by mechanical stresses eg injury or without cause
What are oa symptoms
Loss of joint movement , joint deformity and inflammation pain
How can bone be seen in wrong areas in joint for oa
Ossification deformities
Which 3 ways can you detect oa
Genetic test
Examine mmp activity
Examine levels of sox9 which allows chondrocyte production
How would integrin usually cause homeostasis
Recognise fragments and cause fak signalling causing change in gene exp
What mimics mechanical stress to induce oa in mice
Destabilisation of the medial meniscus in joints (dmm)
Which 2 enzymes were found to reduce ecm in dmm oa mice causing oa
Adamts5 (reduced aggrecan stain)
Mmp 13 collagenase
What was found to be more important , mm13 or adamts5
Mm 13 showing how important collagen is in the ecm of cartilage
What would happen if you mutated the site where mmp13 and adamts5 cuts
The ecm would be restored showing low oa levels in dmm mice
How much of oa is inheritable
50%
Oa is polygenic what does this mean
Many genes involved
Mmp13 is seen in everyone but not everyone develops oa. Explain
Oa is multi factorial eg dependant also on environment
Give the 4 most important genes causing oa
Gdf5
Runx2
Pthlh
Smad3
What does gdf5 do
It’s in the tgf family which cause ecm synthesis via chondrocyte release of col II and aggrecan , and reduces mmp
