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ArticleAnnals of translational medicine2021

Osteogenic differentiation characteristics of hip joint capsule fibroblasts obtained from patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

Nan Jiang, Hong-Xiao Liu, Hui-Ying Liang, Xing-Hua Feng, Ben-Yong Liu, Ying-Yan Zhou

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Article in Annals of translational medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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6 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.

Nan JiangDepartment of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin, China.
Hong-Xiao LiuDepartment of Rheumatology, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Hui-Ying LiangDepartment of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhongshan City People's Hospital, Zhongshan, China.
Xing-Hua FengDepartment of Rheumatology, Guang'anmen Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
Ben-Yong LiuDepartment of TCM internal medicine, Beijing Massage Hospital, Beijing, China.
Ying-Yan ZhouDepartment of Rheumatology, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, China.
Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College · CNGuang’anmen Hospital · CNGuangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNTianjin Medical University · CNZhongshan People's Hospital · CN

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Abstract

backgroundAutoimmune disease are fairly common and one that has an excessive degree of disability is Ankylosing spondylitis (AS). As the main cells in connective tissues, fibroblasts may play important roles in AS ossification. The conducted research aims to establish the osteogenic disparity characteristics of fibroblasts cultured

methodsAS patients hip joint capsules were acquired and fracture patients as the control with the finite fibroblast line were established by using tissue culture method. AS fibroblast proliferation, cycle and apoptosis, expression of osteogenic marker genes, osteogenic phenotypes, and the activation degree of the bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)/Smads signalling pathway were detected by flow cytometry, western blotting and real-time fluorescent quantitative polymerase chain reaction.

resultsProliferative activity in AS fibroblasts were abnormally high, and the apoptotic rate decreased. Compared with normal fibroblasts, the mRNA expression of osteogenic marker genes, expression of osteogenic phenotypes, protein expression of core-binding factor a1 (Cbfa1), Smad1, Smad4, Smad5, phosphorylated (p) Smad1, and pSmad5 in AS fibroblasts were higher; however, the expression of Smad6 was lower. Moreover, recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2(rhBMP-2) stimulated Cbfa1 expression by normal and AS fibroblasts through the BMP/Smads signalling pathway.

conclusionsThe fibroblasts of hip joint capsules in patients with AS cultured

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Ankylosing spondylitis (AS)BMP/Smads signal pathwayfibroblastsosteogenic differentiation

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