ArticleBMC musculoskeletal disorders2023
Pyroptosis -related potential diagnostic biomarkers in steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head.
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- Progress of Programmed Cell Death in Steroid-Induced Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head.Orthopaedic surgery · 2026Review
- Osteoimmune microenvironmental failure in osteonecrosis of the femoral head: a necrosis-inflammation-repair loop and immune-editing-inspired framework for hip preservation.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
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- Integrated lipidomics and network pharmacology analysis to determine how Gu Fu Sheng Capsule improves lipid metabolism in rats with steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head.Journal of traditional and complementary medicine · 2025Article
- Exploring the pathogenesis of steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head co-regulated by mesenchymal stem cells and pyroptosis-related genes with the use of transcriptome.European journal of medical research · 2025Article
- YTHDF3-associated m6A regulation and cuproptosis-related gene expression in steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head.Journal of molecular histology · 2025Article
- Neurotrophic factor biomarkers for ischemic stroke diagnosis and mechanistic insights.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Icariin promotes osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) by activating PI3K-AKT-UTX/EZH2 signaling in steroid-induced femoral head osteonecrosis.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
- Integrated bioinformatics analysis and experimental validation of exosome-related gene signature in steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2025Article
- Pathological mechanisms and related markers of steroid-induced osteonecrosis of the femoral head.Annals of medicine · 2024Review
- GPX4 Promoter Hypermethylation Induced by Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury Regulates Hepatocytic Ferroptosis.Journal of clinical and translational hepatology · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeSteroid-induced necrosis of the femoral head (SONFH) is a refractory orthopedic hip disease occurring in young and middle-aged people, with glucocorticoids being the most common cause. Previous experimental studies have shown that cell pyroptosis may be involved in the pathological process of SONFH, but its pathogenesis in SONFH is still unclear. This study aims to screen and validate potential pyroptosis-related genes in SONFH diagnosis by bioinformatics analysis to further elucidate the mechanism of pyroptosis in SONFH.
methodsThere were 33 pyroptosis-related genes obtained from the prior reviews. The mRNA expression was downloaded from GSE123568 dataset in the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, including 10 non-SONFH (following steroid administration) samples and 30 SONFH samples. The pyroptosis-related differentially expressed genes involved in SONFH were identified with "affy" and "limma" R package by intersecting the GSE123568 dataset with pyroptosis genes. In addition, Gene Ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) pathway enrichment analyses of the pyroptosis-related differentially expressed genes involved in SONFH were conducted by "clusterProfiler" R package and visualized by "GOplot" R package. Then, the correlations between the expression levels of the pyroptosis-related differentially expressed genes involved in SONFH were confirmed with "corrplot" R package. Moreover, the protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was analysed by using GeneMANIA database. Next, The ROC curve of pyroptosis-related differentially expressed genes were analyzed by "pROC" R package.
resultsA total of 10 pyroptosis-related differentially expressed genes were identified between the peripheral blood samples of SONFH patients and non-SONFH patients based on the defined criteria, including 20 upregulated genes and 10 downregulated genes. The GO and KEGG pathway enrichment analyses revealed that these 10 pyroptosis-related differentially expressed genes involved in SONFH were particularly enriched in cysteine-type endopeptidase activity involved in apoptotic process, positive regulation of interleukin-1 beta secretion and NOD-like receptor signaling pathway. Correlation analysis revealed significant correlations among the 10 differentially expressed pyroptosis-related genes involved in SONFH. The PPI results demonstrated that the 10 pyroptosis-related differentially expressed genes interacted with each other. Compared to non-SONFH samples, these pyroptosis-related differentially expressed genes had good predictive diagnostic efficacy (AUC = 1.000, CI = 1.000-1.000) in the SONFH samples, and NLRP1 had the highest diagnostic value (AUC: 0.953) in the SONFH samples.
conclusionsThere were 10 potential pyroptosis-related differentially expressed genes involved in SONFH were identified via bioinformatics analysis, which might serve as potential diagnostic biomarkers because they regulated pyroptosis. These results expand the understanding of SONFH associated with pyroptosis and provide new insights to further explore the mechanism of action and diagnosis of pyroptosis associated in SONFH.
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