Research Article

Small Extracellular Vesicles Derived from Adipocytes Attenuate Intervertebral Disc Degeneration in Rats by Rejuvenating Senescent Nucleus Pulposus Cells and Endplate Cells by Delivering Exogenous NAMPT

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Characterization of adipocytes and Adipo-sEVs. (a) Oil red O staining of adipocytes differentiated from HS-5. (b) Morphology of Adipo-sEVs under TEM. Scale bar, 200 nm. (c) Western blotting analysis indicated that Adipo-sEVs expressed sEV markers, such as CD9, CD63, and TSG101, and were negative for GM130. (d) Particle size distribution of sEVs measured by NTA. (e) IF analysis of DiO-labelled Adipo-sEV internalization by NPCs and EPCs. Scale bar, 30 μm. (f) Levels of NAMPT and CD63 in HS5-sEVs and Adipo-sEVs. (g) Densitometric quantification of the relative band intensity in (f). per group. ( compared with HS5-sEVs).
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