• Department of Orthopedics, Affiliated Hospital of Chengde Medical College, Chengde Hebei, 067000, P. R. China;
LI Liantai, Email: liliantai369@163.com
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Objective  To investigate the effect of resveratrol (RES) on inflammation-induced cartilage endplate (CEP) degeneration, and its regulatory mechanism on high mobility group box-1 protein (HMGB1) signaling pathway. Methods  The intervertebral CEP cells of Sprague Dawley (SD) rats aged 3 weeks were extracted and identified by toluidine blue staining and immunofluorescence staining of rabbit anti-rat collagen type Ⅱ. The cell counting kit 8 (CCK-8) method was used to screen the optimal concentration of RES on intervertebral CEP cells. Gene chip analysis was used to determine the target of RES on intervertebral CEP cells. Interleukin 1β (IL-1β) was used to construct the intervertebral CEP cell degeneration model caused by inflammation and the 7-8-week-old SD rat intervertebral disc degeneration model, and pcDNA3.1-HMGB1 (pcDNA3.1) was used as the control of RES effect. Flow cytometry and TUNEL staining were used to detect the apoptotic rate of intervertebral CEP cells and rat intervertebral disc tissue cells, respectively. ELISA kit was used to detect the content of interleukin 10 (IL-10) and tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α) in the cell supernatant and rat serum. Western blot was used to detect the expressions of HMGB1, extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (ERK), phosphorylated ERK (p-ERK), B cell lymphoma/leukemia 2 gene (Bcl-2), and Bcl-2-associated X protein (Bax). Results The extracted cells were identified as rat intervertebral CEP cells. CCK-8 method screened out the highest activity of intervertebral CEP cells treated with 30 μmol/L RES. The gene chip analysis confirmed that the HMGB1-ERK signal was the target of RES. Both cell experiments and animal experiments showed that RES treatment can significantly down-regulate the apoptosis rate of intervertebral CEP cells, inhibit the release of TNF-α, and increase the content of IL-10; and down-regulate the expressions of HMGB1, p-ERK, and Bax, and increase Bcl-2; and pcDNA3.1 could partially reverse these effects of RES, and the differences were all significant (P<0.05). Conclusion RES can significantly inhibit the apoptosis of intervertebral CEP cells induced by inflammation, which is related to inhibiting the expression of HMGB1.

Citation: HU Hua, LI Liantai, LIU Yanwei, WANG Shujun, XIE Shuangxi, SUN Jianjun. Effect of resveratrol on high mobility group box-1 protein signaling pathway in cartilage endplate degeneration caused by inflammation. Chinese Journal of Reparative and Reconstructive Surgery, 2022, 36(4): 461-469. doi: 10.7507/1002-1892.202110084 Copy

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