Chondrocyte-mediated depletion of articular cartilage proteoglycans in vitro

Chondrocyte-mediated depletion of articular cartilage proteoglycans in vitro.

The degradation of proteoglycan was examined in cultured slices of pig articular cartilage. Pig leucocyte catabolin (10 ng/ml) was used to stimulate the chondrocytes and induce a 4-fold increase in the rate of proteoglycan loss from the matrix for 4 days. Material in the medium of both control and depleted cultures was mostly a degradation product of the aggregating proteoglycan. It was recover...

Hypoxia. HIF-mediated articular chondrocyte function: prospects for cartilage repair

In a chronically hypoxic tissue such as cartilage, adaptations to hypoxia do not merely include cell survival responses, but also promotion of its specific function. This review will focus on describing such hypoxia-mediated chondrocyte function, in particular in the permanent articular cartilage. The molecular details of how chondrocytes sense and respond to hypoxia and how this promotes matri...

Chondrocyte multiplication in osteoarthritic articular cartilage.

Chondrocyte ultrastructure in adult human articular cartilage.

Age changes in the ultrastructure of articular chondrocytes have been studied in detail in mice (Silberberg, Silberberg, and Feir, 1964) and in rabbits (Davies, Barnett, Cochrane, and Palfrey, 1962; Barnett, Cochrane, and Palfrey, 1963). Less has been published concerning the influence of age on cellular ultrastructure in human articular cartilage. This is due partly to the scarcity of suitable...

The heterogeneity of cartilage proteoglycans. Isolation of different types of proteoglycans from bovine articular cartilage.

Proteoglycans, proteins, and glycoproteins were extracted from femoral condyle (FC) and metacarpalphalangeal (MP) articular cartilages and fractionated by sequential density gradient sedimentation under dissociative conditions. The major high density proteoglycan (PG-I) accounted for 74% of the total proteoglycan extracted from the MP cartilage and 79% of that from the femoral condyle. These pr...