A short-term pharmacodynamic model for monitoring aggrecanase activity: injection of monosodium iodoacetate (MIA) in rats and assessment of aggrecan neoepitope release in synovial fluid using novel ELISAs

Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
Craig SwearingenKannan Thirunavukkarasu

Abstract

To develop a short-term in vivo model in rats, with an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) readout for specific aggrecanase-cleaved aggrecan fragments, to facilitate testing of aggrecanase inhibitors. Monosodium iodoacetate (MIA), a metabolic inhibitor, was injected into the right knee joint of male Lewis rats and the release of aggrecanase-cleaved fragments of aggrecan containing the NITEGE or ARGN neoepitope was measured in the synovial fluid at 7 days post MIA injection using novel ELISAs. The ELISAs utilize a commercial antibody directed against the hyaluronic-acid binding region (HABR) of aggrecan, in combination with either an alpha-NITEGE antibody (NITEGE ELISA) or an alpha-ARGS/BC3 antibody (ARGS ELISA), to detect aggrecanase-cleavage of aggrecan within the interglobular domain (IGD). Aggrecan fragments present in in vitro digests, in cytokine-treated cartilage explant culture supernatants and in rat synovial fluid lavage samples were detected and quantified using the two ELISAs. Small molecule inhibitors of aggrecanase activity were dosed orally on days 3-7 to determine their ability to inhibit MIA-induced generation of the NITEGE and ARGN neoepitopes measured in the rat synovial fluid. The NITEGE assay was shown...Continue Reading

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