Chinese Journal of Tissue Engineering Research ›› 2025, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (11): 2357-2367.doi: 10.12307/2025.360

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Relationship between long non-coding RNA and osteoarthritis

Zheng Shanbin, Xia Tianwei, Sun Jiahao, Chen Zhiyuan, Cao Xun, Zhang Chao, Shen Jirong    

  1. Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, First School of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China
  • Received:2024-04-07 Accepted:2024-05-25 Online:2025-04-18 Published:2024-08-12
  • Contact: Shen Jirong, MD, Chief physician, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, First School of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China
  • About author:Zheng Shanbin, Master candidate, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, First School of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210000, Jiangsu Province, China
  • Supported by:
    the National Natural Science Foundation of China, No. 82274552 (to SJR)

Abstract: BACKGROUND: As a common disease in middle-aged and elderly, osteoarthritis is difficult to cure, and the pathogenesis is not clear. Long non-coding RNA participates in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis through many ways, such as regulating translation, promoting or inhibiting mRNA, and adsorbing miRNAs.
OBJECTIVE: To review the types of common long non-coding RNA in osteoarthritis, and the influence of multiple long non-coding RNAs on the pathological factors related to osteoarthritis, to analyze the future application of long non-coding RNAs in osteoarthritis.
METHODS: Literature retrieval was conducted in CNKI, WanFang Data, VIP database, PubMed, Web of Science and Sciencedirect databases, using the search terms of “osteoarthritis, degenerative joint disease, degenerative arthritis, OA, LncRNA, long non-coding RNA, long noncoding RNA, long intergenic non-coding RNA” in Chinese and English. All relevant literature published from 1976 and May 2024 was retrieved. After literature screening, induction, analysis and summary, 93 articles were finally included for review.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: This review collected 25 long non-coding RNAs that are well studied with osteoarthritis. Long non-coding RNAs, as a molecular sponge for miRNA, are competing endogenous RNAs to competitively adsorb miRNAs and then affect downstream targets. Long non-coding RNAs can regulate physiopathological processes such as chondrocyte apoptosis and proliferation, cartilage extracellular matrix degradation, and inflammatory responses. Long non-coding RNAs are expected to become a biomarker and potential therapeutic target for the clinical diagnosis and therapeutic prognosis of osteoarthritis, and it may become a new strategy for the clinical treatment of osteoarthritis in the future.

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: osteoarthritis, chondrocyte, long non-coding RNA, signal transduction, gene expression, review

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