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Yet, very little is known about how aging and injury interact and contribute to OA pathogenesis. In the present study, we examined age- and injury-related molecular changes in mouse knee joints that could contribute to OA. Using RNA-seq, first we profiled the knee joint transcriptome of 10-week-old, 62-week-old, and 95-week-old mice and found that the expression of several inflammatory-response related genes increased as a result of aging, whereas the expression of several genes involved in cartilage metabolism decreased with age. To determine how aging impacts post-traumatic arthritis (PTOA) development, the right knee joints of 10-week-old and 62-week-old mice were injured using a non-invasive tibial compression injury model and injury-induced structural and molecular changes were assessed. At six-week post-injury, 62-week-old mice displayed significantly more cartilage degeneration and osteophyte formation compared with young mice. Although both age groups elicited similar transcriptional responses to injury, 62-week-old mice had higher activation of inflammatory cytokines than 10-week-old mice, whereas cartilage\/bone metabolism genes had higher expression in 10-week-old mice, suggesting that the differential expression of these genes might contribute to the differences in PTOA severity observed between these age groups.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijms21010364","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,6]],"date-time":"2020-01-06T10:34:46Z","timestamp":1578306886000},"page":"364","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["Global Gene Expression Analysis Identifies Age-Related Differences in Knee Joint Transcriptome during the Development of Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis in Mice"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7822-7040","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Aimy","family":"Sebastian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Deepa K.","family":"Murugesh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Melanie E.","family":"Mendez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA"},{"name":"Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1605-3193","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Nicholas R.","family":"Hum","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA"},{"name":"Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Naiomy D.","family":"Rios-Arce","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jillian L.","family":"McCool","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA"},{"name":"Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0105-6458","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Blaine A.","family":"Christiansen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Orthopedic Surgery, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95101, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9546-5561","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Gabriela G.","family":"Loots","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94550, USA"},{"name":"Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced, Merced, CA 95343, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"479","DOI":"10.1517\/14728214.2011.576670","article-title":"Emerging drugs for osteoarthritis","volume":"16","author":"Matthews","year":"2011","journal-title":"Expert Opin. 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