Os efeitos condrotóxicos e apoptóticos de levobupivacaína e bupivacaína na articulação do joelho de coelhos

Bupivacaine, levobupivacaine and ropivacaine are potent, long acting, amide-type local anesthetics that have several clinical applications including intra-articular administration. The objectives of this study were to evaluate their in vitro effects on cell viability and caspase activity to elucidate whether they activate the extrinsic or intrinsic pathways of apoptosis in canine articular chondrocytes.Chondrocytes in monolayer culture were treated with culture medium as the control, or with 0.062% (0.62 mg/mL) bupivacaine, 0.062% levobupivacaine, and 0.062% ropivacaine for 24 hr. Cell viability was evaluated using the live/dead, 3-(4,5-dimehylthiazolyl-2)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT), and Cell Counting Kit-8 (CCK-8) assays. Evaluation of caspase-3, caspase-8, and caspase-9 activity was performed using colorimetric assays. The MTT and CCK-8 assays were used to evaluate the effect of caspase inhibitors on local anesthetic chondrotoxicity. All three local anesthetics decreased chondrocyte viability after 24 hr (P ˂ 0.001). Apoptosis was induced through both the extrinsic and intrinsic pathways.Bupivacaine increased caspase-3, caspase-8, and caspase-9 activity (P ˂ 0.001). Levobupivacaine increased caspase-3 (P = 0.03) while ropivacaine did not significantly upregulate activity for all three caspases. Caspase inhibition did not suppress bupivacaine chondrotoxicity whereas inhibition of caspase-8 and caspase-9 decreased ropivacaine chondrotoxicity and mildly attenuated levobupivacaine chondrotoxicity. In summary, the level of chondrotoxicity, the type of caspase activated, the level of caspase activation, and the response to caspase inhibitors was dependent on the type of local anesthetic.Therefore, ropivacaine may be a safer choice for intra-articular administration compared to levobupivacaine and bupivacaine.

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Os efeitos condrotóxicos e apoptóticos de levobupivacaína e bupivacaína na articulação do joelho de coelhos

Abstract: We found that bupivacaine is more chondrotoxic than other anesthetic agent and increases the number of apoptotic cells. These results indicated that bupivacaine caused high chondrotoxic damage and it led to more apoptotic activation than levobupivacaine.

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<i>In vitro</i> chondrotoxicity of bupivacaine, levobupivacaine and ropivacaine and their effects on caspase activity in cultured canine articular chondrocytes

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