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Effect of pretreatment with collagen crosslinkers on dentin protease activity
R Seseogullari-Dirihan1, M M Mutluay2, P Vallittu3
1Finnish Doctoral Program in Oral Sciences (FINDOS) University of Turku, Institute of Dentistry, Turku, Finland; Adhesive Dentistry Research Group, Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Objectives:
This study evaluated the effect of dentin pretreatment with collagen crosslinkers on matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) and cathepsin K mediated collagen degradation.
Methods:
Dentin beams (1mm×2mm×6mm) were demineralized in 10% H3PO4 for 24h. After baseline measurements of dry mass, beams were divided into 11 groups (n=10/group) and, were pretreated for 5min with 1% glutaraldehyde (GA); 5% GA; 1% grape-seed extract (GS); 5% GS; 10% sumac (S); 20μM curcumin (CR); 200μM CR; 0.l% riboflavin/UV (R); 0.5% R; 0.1% riboflavin-5-phosphate/UV (RP); and control (no pretreatment). After pretreatment, the beams were blot-dried and incubated in 1mL calcium and zinc-containing medium (CM, pH 7.2) at 37°C for 3, 7 or 14 days. After incubation, dry mass was reassessed and aliquots of the incubation media were analyzed for collagen C-telopeptides, ICTP and CTX using specific ELISA kits. Data were analyzed by repeated-measures ANOVA.
Results:
The rate of dry mass loss was significantly different among test groups (p<0.05). The lowest 14 day mean dry mass loss was 6.98%±1.99 in the 200μM curcumin group compared to control loss of dry mass at 32.59%±5.62, p<0.05, at 14 days. The ICTP release over the incubation period (ng/mg dry dentin) ranged between 1.8±0.51 and 31.8±1.8. CTX release from demineralized beams pretreated with crosslinkers was significantly lower than CM (5.7±0.2ng/mg dry dentin).
Significance:
The results of this study indicate that collagen crosslinkers tested in this study are good inhibitors of cathepsin K activity in dentin. However, their inhibitory effect on MMP activity was highly variable.
