Impact of long-term rapamycin treatment on age-related osteoarthritis in common marmoset. 2024

Dennis M Minton, and Aditya R Ailiani, and Michael D K Focht, and Mariana E Kersh, and Angela J Marolf, and Kelly S Santangelo, and Adam B Salmon, and Adam R Konopka

Pharmacologic inhibition of the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) can attenuate experimental osteoarthritis (OA) in young, male preclinical models. However, the potential of mTOR inhibition as a therapeutic mechanism for OA remains unknown. The goal of this study was to determine if mTOR-inhibition by oral rapamycin can modify OA pathology in the common marmoset, a translational model of age-associated OA. microCT and histopathologic assessments of the knee were performed on formalin-fixed hindlimbs obtained from common marmosets treated with oral rapamycin (n=24; 1mg/kg/day) or parallel control group (n=41). Rapamycin started at 9.2±3.0 years old and lasted until death (2.1±1.5 years). In a subset of marmosets, contralateral hind limbs were collected to determine mTOR signaling in several joint tissues. Rapamycin decreased P-RPS6 Ser235/36 and increased P-Akt2 Ser473 in cartilage, meniscus, and infrapatellar fat pad, suggesting inhibition of mTORC1 but not mTORC2 signaling. Rapamycin-treated marmosets had lower lateral synovium score versus control but there was no difference in the age-related increase in microCT or cartilage OA scores. Subchondral bone thickness and thickness variability were not different with age but were lower in rapamycin-treated geriatric marmosets, which was largely driven by females. Rapamycin also tended to worsen age-related meniscus calcification in female marmosets. Oral rapamycin attenuated mTORC1 signaling and may have caused feedback activation of mTORC2 signaling in joint tissues. Despite modifying site-specific aspects of synovitis, rapamycin did not modify the age-associated increase in OA in geriatric marmosets. Conversely, rapamycin may have had deleterious effects on meniscus calcification and lateral tibia subchondral bone, primarily in geriatric female marmosets.

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