Research Article

Small Extracellular Vesicles from Inflamed Adipose Derived Stromal Cells Enhance the NF-κB-Dependent Inflammatory/Catabolic Environment of Osteoarthritis

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sEVs_IL-1 effects on gene expression of major inflammatory genes in chondrocytes kept in control conditions. The figure reports the effects on gene expression of major inflammatory molecules (IL-8, IL-6, and MCP-1) and molecules involved in angiogenesis (VEGF) and pain (COX-2) in chondrocytes grown in both monoculture (white pattern, left graphs) and co-cultured with synoviocytes (white dashed pattern, right graphs) in CTR, sEVs, or sEVs_IL-1 conditions. Data were normalized to GAPDH. Each graph reports data collected from 3 independent sEVs samples and expressed as . The means of the groups were compared by ANOVA, followed by Tukey’s post hoc test, with , , and .