Swelling media: concepts and applications

Huyghe, Jmrj Jacques; Bovendeerd, Phm Peter

doi:10.1007/978-3-7091-2778-0_4

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“…Physiological loading of the IVD generates a strain‐generated potential (SGP), comprised of Donnan equilibrium potentials and electrokinetic potentials. 10 , 11 , 12 Electrokinetic phenomena, such as streaming and diffusion potentials, are generated through fluid‐driven flow around the negatively charged ECM of native PGs. 13 While these only persist as fluid and ion flow occur, Donnan potentials resulting from fixed charge differences remain.…”

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L‐type Voltage‐Gated calcium channels partly mediate Mechanotransduction in the intervertebral disc

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Background: Intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration continues to be a major global health challenge, with strong links to lower back pain, while the pathogenesis of this disease is poorly understood. In cartilage, much more is known about mechanotransduction pathways involving the strain-generated potential (SGP) and function of voltage-gated ion channels (VGICs) in health and disease. This evidence implicates a similar important role for VGICs in IVD matrix turnover.However, the field of VGICs, and to a lesser extent the SGP, remains unexplored in the IVD.Methods: A two-step process was utilized to investigate the role of VGICs in the IVD. First, immunohistochemical staining was used to identify and localize several different VGICs in bovine and human IVDs. Second, a pilot study was conducted on the function of L-type voltage gated calcium channels (VGCCs) by inhibiting these channels with nifedipine (Nf ) and measuring calcium influx in monolayer or gene expression from 3D cell-embedded alginate constructs subject to dynamic compression.Results: Several VGICs were identified at the protein level, one of which, Cav2.2, appears to be upregulated with the onset of human IVD degeneration. Inhibiting L-type VGCCs with Nf supplementation led to an altered cell calcium influx in response to osmotic loading as well as downregulation of col 1a, aggrecan and ADAMTS-4 during dynamic compression.Conclusions: This study demonstrates the presence of several VGICs in the IVD, with evidence supporting a role for L-type VGCCs in mechanotransduction. These findings highlight the importance of future detailed studies in this area to fully elucidate IVD mechanotransduction pathways and better inform treatment strategies for IVD degeneration.

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Plants as Mechano-Osmotic Transducers

Hejnowicz

2011

Mechanical Integration of Plant Cells and Plants

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The strain-generated electrical potential in cartilaginous tissues: a role for piezoelectricity

2021

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The strain-generated potential (SGP) is a well-established mechanism in cartilaginous tissues whereby mechanical forces generate electrical potentials. In articular cartilage (AC) and the intervertebral disc (IVD), studies on the SGP have focused on fluid- and ionic-driven effects, namely Donnan, diffusion and streaming potentials. However, recent evidence has indicated a direct coupling between strain and electrical potential. Piezoelectricity is one such mechanism whereby deformation of most biological structures, like collagen, can directly generate an electrical potential. In this review, the SGP in AC and the IVD will be revisited in light of piezoelectricity and mechanotransduction. While the evidence base for physiologically significant piezoelectric responses in tissue is lacking, difficulties in quantifying the physiological response and imperfect measurement techniques may have underestimated the property. Hindering our understanding of the SGP further, numerical models to-date have negated ferroelectric effects in the SGP and have utilised classic Donnan theory that, as evidence argues, may be oversimplified. Moreover, changes in the SGP with degeneration due to an altered extracellular matrix (ECM) indicate that the significance of ionic-driven mechanisms may diminish relative to the piezoelectric response. The SGP, and these mechanisms behind it, are finally discussed in relation to the cell response.

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Swelling media: concepts and applications

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

L‐type Voltage‐Gated calcium channels partly mediate Mechanotransduction in the intervertebral disc

L‐type Voltage‐Gated calcium channels partly mediate Mechanotransduction in the intervertebral disc

Plants as Mechano-Osmotic Transducers

The strain-generated electrical potential in cartilaginous tissues: a role for piezoelectricity

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