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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Adipo-sEVs deliver NAMPT into senescent EPCs and enhance NAD+ and Sirt1 activity. (a) Adipo-sEVs increased NAMPT and Sirt1 levels in senescent EPCs, but not Sirt3 and Sirt5 levels, as detected by western blotting. (b) Densitometric quantification of the relative band intensity in (a). per group. (c) IF staining for Sirt1 (red). DAPI was used to stain the nuclei. Scale bar, 50 μm. (d) NAD+ levels in EPCs treated with IL-1β and those cotreated with IL-1β and Adipo-sEVs. ( compared with the control group; # compared with the IL-1β group).
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