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The Histological and Biochemical Assessment of Monoiodoacetate-Induced Knee Osteoarthritis in a Rat Model Treated with Salicylic Acid-Iron Oxide Nanoparticles.

George Bică, Otilia-Constantina Rogoveanu, Florin-Liviu Gherghina, Cătălina-Gabriela Pisoschi, Sandra-Alice Buteică, Cristina-Elena Biță, Iulia-Alexandra Paliu, Ion Mîndrilă

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Article in Biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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George BicăDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, 2 Petru Rares Street, 200349 Craiova, Romania.
Otilia-Constantina RogoveanuDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, 2 Petru Rares Street, 200349 Craiova, Romania.
Florin-Liviu GherghinaDepartment of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, 2 Petru Rares Street, 200349 Craiova, Romania.
Cătălina-Gabriela PisoschiDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, 2 Petru Rares Street, 200349 Craiova, Romania.
Sandra-Alice ButeicăFaculty of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, 2 Petru Rares Street, 200349 Craiova, Romania.
Cristina-Elena BițăDepartment of Rheumatology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, 2 Petru Rares Street, 200349 Craiova, Romania.
Iulia-Alexandra PaliuDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, 2 Petru Rares Street, 200349 Craiova, Romania.ORCID 0000-0001-8258-6989
Ion MîndrilăDepartment of Anatomy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, 2 Petru Rares Street, 200349 Craiova, Romania.

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Abstract

Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs) represent an important advance in the field of medicine with application in both diagnostic and drug delivery domains, offering a therapeutic approach that effectively overcomes physical and biological barriers. The current study aimed to assess whether oral administration of salicylic acid-functionalized iron oxide nanoparticles (SaIONPs) may exhibit beneficial effects in alleviating histological lesions in a murine monoiodoacetate (MIA) induced knee osteoarthritis model. In order to conduct our study, 15 Wistar male rats were randomly distributed into 3 work groups: Sham (S), MIA, and NP. At the end of the experiments, all animals were sacrificed for blood, knee, and liver sampling. Our results have shown that SaIONPs reached the targeted sites and also had a chondroprotective effect represented by less severe histological lesions regarding cellularity, altered structure morphology, and proteoglycan depletion across different layers of the knee joint cartilage tissue. Moreover, SaIONPs induced a decrease in malondialdehyde (MDA) and circulating Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (TNF-α) levels. The findings of this study suggest the therapeutic potential of SaIONPs knee osteoarthritis treatment; further studies are needed to establish a correlation between the administrated dose of SaIONPs and the improvement of the morphological and biochemical parameters.

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cytokineiron oxide nanoparticlesknee osteoarthritismonoiodoacetatemurine modeloxidative stresssalicylic acid

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PMID38785813
PMCPMC11117951

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