NIR-photocatalytic regulation of arthritic synovial microenvironment

Bin Zhao, Lingting Zeng, Danyang Chen, Songqing Xie, Zhaokui Jin, Guanglin Li, Wei Tang, Qianjun He

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Abstract:

Synovial microenvironment (SME) plays a vital role in the formation of synovial pannus and the induction of cartilage destruction in arthritis. In this work, a concept of the photocatalytic regulation of SME is proposed for arthritis treatment, and monodispersive hydrogen-doped titanium dioxide nanorods with a rutile single-crystal structure are developed by a full-solution method to achieve near infrared-photocatalytic generation of hydrogen molecules and simultaneous depletion of overexpressed lactic acid (LA) for realizing SME regulation in a collagen-induced mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis. Mechanistically, locally generated hydrogen molecules scavenge overexpressed reactive oxygen species to mediate the anti-inflammatory polarization of macrophages, while the simultaneous photocatalytic depletion of overexpressed LA inhibits the inflammatory/invasive phenotypes of synoviocytes and macrophages and ameliorates the abnormal proliferation of synoviocytes, thereby remarkably preventing the synovial pannus formation and cartilage destruction. The proposed catalysis-mediated SME regulation strategy will open a window to realize facile and efficient arthritis treatment.

Publish Year 2022
Country China
Rank Positive
Journal Science Advances
Primary Topic Bone
Secondary Topic Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
Model Mouse
Tertiary Topic Surgery/Transplantation
Vehicle Gas
pH N/A
Application In Vivo Biotic Production
Comparison
Complement