Osteoarthritic symptom is the key reason to seek medical assistance, yet there is no effective way to relieve osteoarthritis (OA)-induced pain. Our long term goal is to understand the discrepancy between the degree of cartilage degeneration and the actual experience of joint pain by investigating the neuroanatomical approaches in an experimental OA model followed by validation in human joint tissues. We propose that OA pain sensation can develop independently of progressive cartilage degeneration, and that severity of joint pain is due to cellular and molecular plasticity in the sensory neurons of the innervating dorsal root ganglion and pathological changes in synovium (e.g., synovitis, angiogenesis). We will identify the fundamental factors that facilitate pro- nociception in OA independently of the degree of cartilage degeneration. Our studies will also provide important empirical support for the development of clinical strategies to treat OA symptoms. Our results will provide a novel view of major disease-modified chronic pain mechanisms that accompany degeneration of knee joints in OA. At a broader level, results from this proposal will impact our conceptual perspectives and future research translation by clarifying relationships between musculoskeletal tissue degeneration and debilitating OA symptoms.

Public Health Relevance

(Relevance). This application provides a unique opportunity to study nociceptive pathway initiated by osteoarthritis by combining genetically modified mice and an established translational animal model that are amenable to behavioral pain tests that have set the stage for rapid advances in this highly under-studied area. We address a fundamental question: 'Why is there no close correlation between the degree of cartilage degeneration and the degree of pain sensation? 'Our results will discover a novel neuroanatomical mechanism-based nociceptive pathway and molecular mechanisms that cannot be addressed by clinical protocols in humans, and will establish new experimental avenues and novel research directions for osteoarthritis -caused knee joint pain. PHS 398 (Rev. 11/07) Page 1

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Veterans Affairs (VA)
Type
Non-HHS Research Projects (I01)
Project #
5I01BX002647-02
Application #
8967105
Study Section
Endocrinology B (ENDB)
Project Start
2014-10-01
Project End
2018-09-30
Budget Start
2015-10-01
Budget End
2016-09-30
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2016
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
Department
Type
DUNS #
010299204
City
Chicago
State
IL
Country
United States
Zip Code
60612
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