Promoted Viability and Differentiated Phenotype of Cultured Chondrocytes With Low Level Laser Irradiation Potentiate Efficacious Cells for Therapeutics
Open Access
- 29 May 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
- Vol. 8, 468
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fbioe.2020.00468
Abstract
Effective clinical treatments of cartilage lesions in affected joints require large numbers of viable chondrogenic cells generated through in vivo stimulation or ex vivo expansion of chondrocytes isolated from small biopsy specimens. Conventional passaging of chondrocytes in culture provides sufficient cells for treatments but these cells usually lose their differentiated phenotype. This leads to the formation of fibrocartilaginous tissue due to a malfunctioning repair process. Biostimulation of passaging chondrocytes with low level laser irradiation (LLLI) may theoretically produce more functional chondrocytes for cell-based repair of cartilage defects. Molecular and cellular analyses, cytochemistry, cell cultivation, and microscopy showed that LLLI treatments were found to (1) increase chondrocyte viability, (2) promote secretion of matrix proteins, (3) upregulate expression of chondrogenic genes, and (4) downregulate gene expression of cell destructive proteases and genes coding for mediators involved in the extrinsic apoptosis signaling pathway. Furthermore, LLLI attenuated induction of genes associated with cell death and matrix breakdown induced by IL-1β, some of which was seen at the protein level, with verification of effects on gene expression in the C28/I2 human chondrocyte line. LLLI treatments during culture generated larger numbers of viable chondrocytes compared to untreated cultures. Moreover, LLLI-treated chondrocytes in culture also rectified and simultaneously maintained their differentiated phenotype. Cultured chondrocytes treated with LLLI are a promising cell source for repairing cartilage lesions in vivo and restoration of articular function using tissue engineering strategies.This publication has 57 references indexed in Scilit:
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