Previous work showed that in organ culture pig articular cartilage is not affected by complement-sufficient antiserum to pig erythrocytes (AS + C′) unless it is associated with soft connective tissue. In the presence of synovial tissue the matrix becomes depleted of proteoglycan and may finally disintegrate. Immunoglobulin fails to enter normal cartilage matrix, but penetrates depleted matrix and reacts with the surfaces of the chondrocytes. The present experiments were made to see whether the breakdown of partially depleted cartilage matrix would progress in AS + C′ after removal of the synovial explant. Affronted explants of articular cartilage and synovial tissue were cultivated in AS + C′ for 10 days (primary cultures). The synovial tissue was then removed and the isolated cartilage maintained for a further period either in AS + C′ or in one of a variety of control media (secondary cultures). The behavior of the isolated cartilage during the secondary culture period depended on the degree of breakdown attained at the end of the primary period. If only proteoglycan but not collagen had been seriously depleted, degradation of the matrix did not progress in AS + C′ and slight regeneration of metachromatic material sometimes took place; regeneration of matrix was greater after transfer to control medium. If collagen as well as proteoglycan had been destroyed, the chondrocytes assumed a fibro-blastic form, their surfaces no longer reacted with IgG antibody, and in secondary culture they failed to regenerate new matrix.

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© 1975 S. Karger AG, Basel
1975
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