Effects of cryotherapy on the regeneration process and muscular mechanical properties after lacerative injury model
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS
Authors: dos Santos Haupenthal, Daniela Pacheco; de Bem Silveira, Gustavo; Zaccaron, Rubya Pereira; Correa, Maria Eduarda Anastacio Borges; de Souza, Priscila Soares; Filho Mario, Cesar Burigo; de Roch Casagrande, Laura; de Melo Cardoso, Mariana; Rigo, Flavia Karine; Haupenthal, Alessandro; Silveira, Paulo Cesar Lock
Abstract
Cryotherapy is a therapeutic modality widely used for the treatment of muscle injuries to control pain and inflammatory processes. This study aimed to investigate the effects of cryotherapy on the inflammatory and oxidative stress parameters and mechanical properties of, and pain in, the skeletal muscles of rats with lacerative muscle injury. The rats were anesthetized with 4% isoflurane and subjected to gastrocnemius muscle laceration injury. After injury, all animals in the intervention groups received cryotherapy treatment for 20 minutes using plastic bags containing crushed ice. The protocol comprised three daily applications at 3-hour intervals on the day of injury, with reapplication 24 hours later. Seventy-two male Wistar rats were divided into three groups: sham, muscle injury (MI), and MI + cryotherapy (MI + cryo). Muscle mechanical properties were analyzed by mechanical tensile testing on day 7 after injury. The MI + cryo group showed reduced TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma, and IL1 beta levels; elevated IL4, IL6, and IL10 levels; reduced oxidant production and carbonyl levels; and elevated sulfhydryl contents. Animals that underwent tissue cooling showed superoxide dismutase activity and glutathione levels close to those of the animals in the sham group. The MI and MI + cryo groups showed reduced values of the evaluated mechanical properties and lower mechanical thresholds compared to those of the animals from the sham group. Our results demonstrated that the proposed cryotherapy protocol reduced the inflammatory process and controlled oxidative stress but did not reverse the changes in the mechanical properties of muscle tissues or provide analgesic effects within the time frame analyzed.
IL-10 Dampens an IL-17-Mediated Periodontitis-Associated Inflammatory Network
JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Authors: Sun, Lu; Girnary, Mustafa; Wang, Lufei; Jiao, Yizu; Zeng, Erliang; Mercer, Kyle; Zhang, Jinmei; Marchesan, Julie T.; Yu, Ning; Moss, Kevin; Lei, Yu L.; Offenbacher, Steven; Zhang, Shaoping
Abstract
Emerging evidence suggests comprehensive immune profiling represents a highly promising, yet insufficiently tapped approach to identify potentially prognostic signatures for periodontitis. In this report, we agnostically identified a periodontitis-associated inflammatory expression network with multiple biomarkers identified within gingival crevicular fluid samples from study participants by applying principal component analysis. We identified an IL-17-dominated trait that is associated with periodontal disease and is inversely modified by the level of IL-10. IL-10 mitigated chemokine CXCL5 and CXCL1 expressions in IL-17-stimulated peripheral blood monocytic cells and peripheral blood monocytic cell-derived macrophages. 1110-deficient mice presented more bone loss, which was associated with more Il17 and IL-17-mediated chemokine and cytokine expression at the transcriptional levels in comparison with control wild-type mice in both the Porphyromonas gingivalis-induced experimental murine periodontitis and ligature-induced alveolar bone-loss models. The dampening effect of IL-10 on the excessive signaling of IL-17 appeared to be mediated by innate immune cells populations rather than by gingival epithelial cells, which are the major cell target for IL-17 signaling. Additionally, elevated IL-17 response in Il10-deficient mice specifically elicited an Ml-skewing macrophage phenotype in the gingiva that was associated with the advanced bone loss in the ligature model. In summary, IL-17 dominated an inflammatory network characteristic of periodontitis, and IL-10 dampens this excessive IL-17-mediated periodontitis trait.