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The circadian rhythm in intervertebral disc degeneration: an autophagy connection.


ABSTRACT: There is one circadian clock in the central nervous system and another in the peripheral organs, and the latter is driven by an autoregulatory molecular clock composed of several core clock genes. The height, water content, osmotic pressure and mechanical characteristics of intervertebral discs (IVDs) have been demonstrated to exhibit a circadian rhythm (CR). Recently, a molecular clock has been shown to exist in IVDs, abolition of which can lead to stress in nucleus pulposus cells (NPCs), contributing to intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD). Autophagy is a fundamental cellular process in eukaryotes and is essential for individual cells or organs to respond and adapt to changing environments; it has also been demonstrated to occur in human NPCs. Increasing evidence supports the hypothesis that autophagy is associated with CR. Thus, we review the connection between CR and autophagy and the roles of these mechanisms in IDD.

SUBMITTER: Zhang TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7000407 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The circadian rhythm in intervertebral disc degeneration: an autophagy connection.

Zhang Tai-Wei TW   Li Ze-Fang ZF   Dong Jian J   Jiang Li-Bo LB  

Experimental & molecular medicine 20200127 1


There is one circadian clock in the central nervous system and another in the peripheral organs, and the latter is driven by an autoregulatory molecular clock composed of several core clock genes. The height, water content, osmotic pressure and mechanical characteristics of intervertebral discs (IVDs) have been demonstrated to exhibit a circadian rhythm (CR). Recently, a molecular clock has been shown to exist in IVDs, abolition of which can lead to stress in nucleus pulposus cells (NPCs), contr  ...[more]

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