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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Velloso Alvarez, Ana
• Wooldridge, Anne A.
• Fuller, Joseph
• Shrader, Stephanie M.
• Mansour, Mahmoud
• Boone, Lindsey H.

Titel

Culture Media Supplemented With 10% Equine Serum Provided Chondroprotection in an In Vitro Co-Culture of Cartilage and Synovial Membrane

Ist Teil von

• Journal of equine veterinary science, 2023-09, Vol.128, p.104865-104865, Article 104865

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Access via ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Cellular and tissue culture in vitro studies often use equine serum supplemented media, however, no studies have evaluated the effects of its use.•The addition of 10% equine serum produced a slight chondroprotective effect in an inflamed co-culture system.•Tissue on serum-free media did not experience more cellular death compared to media supplemented with equine serum.•This effect should be considered when designing studies evaluating treatment of serum or plasma-based orthobiologic studies in vitro. No studies have evaluated the effect of culture in serum-free media (SF) vs. media supplemented with equine serum (ES) on co-culture of synovial membrane and cartilage tissue explants. The study objective was to evaluate the effects of equine serum supplementation on induced production of inflammatory and catabolic mediators from articular cartilage and synovial explants while in co-culture. Articular cartilage and synovial membrane explants were harvested from femoropatellar joints of five adult horses. Cartilage and synovial explants were harvested from the stifle of five horses, placed in co-culture, stimulated with IL-1β (10 ng/ml) and maintained in culture for 3, 6 and 9 days in 10% ES or SF. At each time point, media was harvested for analysis of cellular viability (Lactate dehydrogenase) and elution of glycosaminoglycans (Dimethylene Blue Binding Assay). Tissue explants were harvested for histopathologic and gene expression analyses. No differences in cell viability were observed between SF and ES groups. SF culture produced an upregulation of TNF-α in synovial membrane and ADAMTS-4 and five in articular cartilage at 9 days of culture. ES produced an upregulation of aggrecan expression in cartilage at 9 days of culture. No differences in tissue viability were found between culture media, but SF media produced a higher glycosaminoglycan concentration in media at 3 days of culture. The addition of 10% ES produced a slight chondroprotective effect in an inflamed co-culture system. This effect should be considered when designing studies evaluating treatment of serum or plasma-based orthobiologic studies in vitro.