Objective: Diabetes and other metabolic and inflammatory comorbidities are highly associated with osteoarthritis (OA). However, whether early-life hyperglycemia exposure affects susceptibility to long-term OA is still unknown. The purpose of this study was to explore the fetal origins of OA and provide insights into early-life safeguarding for individual health.
Method: This study utilized streptozotocin to induce intrauterine hyperglycemia and performed destabilization of the medial meniscus surgery on the knee joints of the offspring mice to induce accelerated OA. Cartilage degeneration-related markers, as well as the expression levels of mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes and mitophagy genes in the adult offspring mice, were investigated. In vitro, mitochondrial function and mitophagy of chondrocyte C28/I2 cells stimulated under high glucose conditions were also evaluated. The methylation levels of the sirt3 gene promoter region in the articular cartilage of intrauterine hyperglycemia-exposed offspring mice were further analyzed.
Results: In this study, we found that the intrauterine hyperglycemic environment could lead to an increase in individual susceptibility to OA in late adulthood, mainly due to persistently low levels of Sirt3 expression. Downregulation of Sirt3 causes impaired mitophagy in chondrocytes and abnormal mitochondrial respiratory function due to a failure to clear aged and damaged mitochondria in a timely manner. Overexpressing Sirt3 at the cellular level or using Sirt3 agonists like Honokiol in mouse models can partially rescue mitophagy disorders caused by the hyperglycemic environment and thus alleviate the progression of OA.
Conclusion: Our study revealed a significantly increased susceptibility to OA in the gestational diabetes mellitus offspring, which is partly attributed to exposure to adverse factors in utero and ultimately to the onset of disease via epigenetic modulation.
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