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Low molecular weight hyaluronic acid effects on murine macrophage nitric oxide production
Author(s) -
Lyle Daniel B.,
Breger Joyce C.,
Baeva Larissa F.,
Shallcross Jonathan C.,
Durfor Charles N.,
Wang Nam Sun,
Langone John J.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of biomedical materials research part a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.849
H-Index - 150
eISSN - 1552-4965
pISSN - 1549-3296
DOI - 10.1002/jbm.a.32760
Subject(s) - nitric oxide , hyaluronic acid , biomaterial , macrophage , inflammation , nitric oxide synthase , molecular mass , biochemistry , splenocyte , materials science , biology , chemistry , immunology , endocrinology , enzyme , nanotechnology , in vitro , anatomy
Hyaluronic acid (HA) is increasingly used for a number of medical device applications. Since the chemical structure of HA is identical no matter its bacterial or animal origin, it should be the ideal biomaterial. However, short term transient inflammatory reactions are common, while rare long‐term adverse events may correlate with subclinical chronic inflammation. Concern has been raised that low molecular weight components or degradation fragments from implanted HA may directly stimulate inflammatory reactions. This study examined a panel of HA molecular weights from the unitary disaccharide up to 1.7 × 10 6 Dalton lengths, in which endotoxin was assayed at a very low level (less than 0.03 EU/mg). The murine cell line RAW 264.7, rat splenocytes, and rat adherent differentiated primary macrophages were assayed for nitric oxide production under a variety of inflammatory conditions plus or minus HA. Under the highest inflammatory states, nitric oxide production was mildly suppressed by HMW‐HA while slightly augmented by LMW‐HA at mg/mL concentrations. However, at micromolar concentrations fragments below 5000 Daltons, thought to have drug‐like qualities, were without effect. These data support the hypothesis that if endotoxin is reduced to an extremely low level, LMW‐HA may not directly provoke normal tissue macrophage‐mediated inflammatory reactions. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A, 2010