Calcium phosphate particulates increase friction in the rat knee joint
Calcium phosphate particulates increase friction in the rat knee joint
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DOI:
10.1016/j.joca.2014.02.938
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发表时间:
2014-05-01
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7
通讯作者:
Badger, G. J.
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作者:
Roemhildt, M. L.;Gardner-Morse, M. G.;Badger, G. J.
Objective: Basic calcium phosphate (BCP) particulates are commonly found in cartilage and synovial fluid of osteoarthritis (OA) joints with the amount of BCP correlating with knee OA severity. How cartilage mineralization affects joint degeneration has yet to be determined. The objective of this study was to determine whether BCP in the synovial fluid affects the rat knee joint coefficient of friction (COF).Methods: The COFs of knees from both hind limbs of four mature male rats were measured post mortem using a pendulum apparatus with an infrared tracking system. The three conditions evaluated were (1) the naive state, (2) after the injection of 100 mu L of phosphate buffered saline (PBS) (sham) and (3) after the injection of 100 mu L of a 1 mg/mL BCP suspension. The decrease in the pendulum amplitude (decay) was fit using two friction models: (1) a one parameter Stanton linear decay model and (2) a two parameters combination Stanton linear decay and viscous damping exponential decay model.Results: The COF increased 17.6% after injection of BCP compared to the naive (P = 0.0012) and 16.0% compared to the saline injected (P = 0.0018) joints as derived from the one parameter model. The COF did not differ between naive and saline injected joints. Results from the two parameters model showed a similar increase in COF after injection of BCP while the viscous damping was not significantly different between conditions.Conclusions: The increased joint friction with BCP particulates suggests BCPs may play a role in articular surface degradation and OA development. (C) 2014 Osteoarthritis Research Society International. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.