Li Liang, Fengmei Zhang, Naibo Feng, Biao Kuang, Mengtian Fan, Cheng Chen, Yiming Pan, Pengfei Zhou, Nana Geng, Xingyue Li, Menglin Xian, Lin Deng, Xiaoli Li, Liang Kuang, Fengtao Luo, Qiaoyan Tan, Yangli Xie, Fengjin Guo
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a full-joint, multifactorial, degenerative and inflammatory disease that seriously affects the quality of life of patients due to its disabling and pain-causing properties. ER stress has been reported to be closely related to the progression of OA. The inositol-requiring enzyme 1α/X-box-binding protein-1 spliced (IRE1α/XBP1s) pathway, which is highly expressed in the chondrocytes of OA patients, promotes the degradation and refolding of abnormal proteins during ER stress and maintains the stability of the ER environment of chondrocytes, but its function and the underlying mechanisms of how it contributes to the progression of OA remain unclear...
November 1, 2023: Experimental & Molecular Medicine