Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2017, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (8): 1280-1287.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-4344.2017.08.023

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Cell autophagy is involved in steroid-induced necrosis of the femoral head

Meng Chen-yang1, Liu Wan-lin2, Bai Rui2, Zhao Zhen-qun2   

  1. 1Graduate School of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot 010059, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China; 2the Second Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot 010030, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
  • Received:2017-01-17 Online:2017-03-18 Published:2017-04-14
  • Contact: Corresponding author: Liu Wan-lin, Master, Professor, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot 010030, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Corresponding author: Bai Rui, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot 010030, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
  • About author:Meng Chen-yang, Studying for master’s degree, Graduate School of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot 010059, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Zhao Zhen-qun, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot 010059, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China Meng Chen-yang and Zhao Zhen-qun contributed equally to this work.
  • Supported by:

    the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 81360273, 81460331, and 81560349

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Autophagy of osteocytes has been found to be implicated in the pathogenesis of steroid-induced necrosis of the femoral head and closely related to apoptosis.
OBJECTIVE: To summarize the research progress of autophagy in the pathogenesis of steroid-induced necrosis of the femoral head by studying the interaction between cell autophagy and cell apoptosis as well as osteocytes.
METHODS: A computer-based online retrieval of PubMed, Embase and CNKI databases was performed for relevant literatures published from October 1996 to October 2016 with the keywords of “steroid, necrosis of the femoral head, cell apoptosis, cell autophagy, osteocyte” in Chinese and English, respectively. The articles concerning steroid-induced necrosis of femoral head and cell autophagy were collected, and the redundant and old researches or Meta analysis were removed.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: Mammalian target of rapamycin, Beclin-1, microtubule-associated protein 1 light chain 3, bone morphogenetic proteins, fork box protein and transcription gene family and transcription factor 4 are closely related to autophagy. The interaction between autophagy and osteocytes is correlated with steroid dose: the autophagy shows protective factor under the low dose corticosteroids; however, with the increase of the dosage, a large number of apoptotic cells, and the phenomenon of bone loss can been observed. Furthermore, the relationship of cell autophagy with apoptosis and bone mass maintenance is still controversial, which needs to be explored in depth via a series of rational experiments.

中国组织工程研究杂志出版内容重点:组织构建;骨细胞;软骨细胞;细胞培养;成纤维细胞;血管内皮细胞;骨质疏松组织工程

Key words: Femur Head Necrosis, Autophagy, Apoptosis, Genes, Tissue Engineering

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