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. 2017 Mar 14;2017:5601593. doi: 10.1155/2017/5601593

Table 2.

Therapeutic effects of antioxidants on degenerative disc cells and intervertebral disc degeneration.

Antioxidant Model (administration route) Therapeutic effects Reference
NAC Rat AF cells (in vitro supplementation) Suppressing catabolic and proinflammatory phenotype induced by H2O2 [14]
Rat discs (oral administration) Delaying IDD process induced by disc puncture [14]
Human NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Retarding premature senescence induced by H2O2 [15]
Rabbit AF cells (in vitro supplementation) Restraining apoptosis induced by local anesthetics [23]
Rat NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Suppressing excessive autophagy induced by serum deprivation [24]
Rat NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Suppressing excessive autophagy induced by compression [25]

Resveratrol Human NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Suppressing apoptosis [26, 27]
Bovine NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Inhibiting matrix catabolic phenotype and promoting matrix anabolism [28]
Mouse discs (oral administration) Delaying IDD process induced by disc puncture [29]
Human NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Inhibiting matrix catabolic phenotype and promoting matrix anabolism [30]
Rat NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Inhibiting apoptosis induced by IL-1β [31]
Human NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Suppressing matrix catabolic phenotype induced by TNF-α [32]
Human NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Suppressing proinflammatory phenotype induced by IL-1β [33]

EGCG Human NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Retarding premature senescence induced by H2O2 [34]
Human NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Suppressing the proinflammatory and catabolic phenotype induced IL-1β [35]

Fullerol Human NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Retarding matrix catabolism induced by H2O2 [36]
Rabbit discs (intradiscal injection) Delaying IDD process induced by disc puncture

Cordycepin Rat NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Suppressing matrix catabolic phenotype induced by LPS [37]
Rat organ cultured discs (ex vivo supplementation) Delaying IDD process induced by LPS

BMP7 Human NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Suppressing apoptosis and matrix catabolic phenotype induced by H2O2 [38]
IGF1 Human AF cells (in vitro supplementation) Retarding premature senescence induced by H2O2 [39]
HGF Rabbit NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Suppressing apoptosis and matrix catabolic and proinflammatory phenotype induced by H2O2 [40]
PQQ Rat NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Suppressing apoptosis and matrix catabolic phenotype induced by H2O2 [41]
Ferulic acid Rabbit NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Restraining apoptosis and matrix catabolic phenotype by H2O2 [42, 43]
GSH Human NP cells (in vitro supplementation) Suppressing apoptosis and matrix catabolic phenotype induced by H2O2 [44]

NP: nucleus pulposus; AF: annulus fibrosus; GSH: glutathione; NAC: N-acetylcysteine; IDD: intervertebral disc degeneration; IL: interleukin; TNF: tumor necrosis factor; EGCG: epigallocatechin 3-gallate; PQQ: pyrroloquinoline quinone; LPS: lipopolysaccharide; BMP: bone morphogenetic protein; IGF: insulin-like growth factor; HGF: hepatocyte growth factor.