The Role of Autophagy in Osteoarthritic Cartilage.
Biomolecules
; 12(10)2022 09 23.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-36291565
ABSTRACT
Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common diseases leading to physical disability, with age being the main risk factor, and degeneration of articular cartilage is the main focus for the pathogenesis of OA. Autophagy is a crucial intracellular homeostasis system recycling flawed macromolecules and cellular organelles to sustain the metabolism of cells. Growing evidences have revealed that autophagy is chondroprotective by regulating apoptosis and repairing the function of damaged chondrocytes. Then, OA is related to autophagy depending on different stages and models. In this review, we discuss the character of autophagy in OA and the process of the autophagy pathway, which can be modulated by some drugs, key molecules and non-coding RNAs (microRNAs, long non-coding RNAs and circular RNAs). More in-depth investigations of autophagy are needed to find therapeutic targets or diagnostic biomarkers through in vitro and in vivo situations, making autophagy a more effective way for OA treatment in the future. The aim of this review is to introduce the concept of autophagy and make readers realize its impact on OA. The database we searched in is PubMed and we used the keywords listed below to find appropriate article resources.
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Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Osteoarthritis
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Cartilage, Articular
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MicroRNAs
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Year:
2022
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Article