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ArticleBiomolecules2025

Synovial Fluid Extracellular Vesicles from Patients with Severe Osteoarthritis Differentially Promote a Pro-Catabolic, Inflammatory Chondrocyte Phenotype.

Caitlin Ditchfield, Joshua Price, Edward T Davis, Simon W Jones

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Article in Biomolecules, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 authors.

Caitlin DitchfieldDepartment of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.
Joshua PriceDepartment of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9950-7992
Edward T DavisThe Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham B31 2AP, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2198-9068
Simon W JonesDepartment of Inflammation and Ageing, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6785-2310

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/W026961/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synovial inflammation is recognised as a pathological driver of osteoarthritis (OA), a degenerative joint disease involving cartilage degradation and joint pain. Since extracellular vesicles (EVs) have emerged as key mediators of cellular cross-talk, this study characterised synovial fluid EVs (SFEVs) in OA patients with varying disease severity and determined their functional effects on OA articular chondrocytes. Synovial fluid and articular cartilage were collected from patients undergoing knee surgery. SFEVs were isolated via ultracentrifugation and characterised by nanoparticle tracking analysis, ExoView, and Luminex analysis of protein cargo. Patients were stratified into mild/moderate- and severe-OA groups based on Oxford Knee Score and EQ5D. Chondrocytes were treated with SFEVs, and transcriptomic and secretome responses were analysed using RNA sequencing, Luminex, and ELISA. SFEVs from patients with severe OA were more abundant, smaller and exhibited increased tetraspanin expression. Synovial fluid and SFEVs induced distinct transcriptomic changes in chondrocytes. SFEVs from patients with severe OA promoted a pro-inflammatory and catabolic chondrocyte phenotype, with upregulation of

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ChondrocytesExtracellular VesiclesOsteoarthritisSynovial FluidAgedCartilage, ArticularFemaleHumansInflammationMaleMiddle AgedPhenotypearticular chondrocytesextracellular vesiclesosteoarthritissynovial fluidsynovitis

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PMID40563469
PMCPMC12190261

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