• World Neurosurg · May 2023

    Establishment of an animal model of disc degeneration by intradiscal injection of monosodium iodoacetate.

    • Najah Elmounedi, Walid Bahloul, Ahmed Racem Guidara, Mourad Aoui, Moez Trigui, and Hassib Keskes.
    • Cell Therapy and Experimental Musculoskeletal System LR18SP11 Lab, Faculty of Medicine, Sfax, Tunisia. Electronic address: najah.mounedi12@gmail.com.
    • World Neurosurg. 2023 May 1; 173: e532e541e532-e541.

    BackgroundDisk degeneration (DD) stands for the most common cause of low back pain. The establishment of an animal model plays an intrinsic role in the clarification of the physiopathology of DD. The purpose of this study is to select an optimal dose of monosodium iodoacetate (MIA) that may generate a reliable model of DD.MethodsThirty-four rats were used in this study. The disks (Co7/8, Co8/9, and Co 9/10) received 1 shot of intradiskal injection of 0.02 mg, 0.1 mg, and 0.5 mg of MIA solution, respectively. Half of the rats were euthanized 3 weeks after MIA injection, and the other half 6 weeks after injection.ResultsMagnetic resonance imaging evaluation showed that the mean T2-weighted signal intensity at 6 weeks decreased significantly in the 0.1 and 0.5 mg groups. The disk height of the control group was significantly higher than those of the 0.1 mg and 0.5 mg groups. Histologic and macroscopic results revealed time-and-dose-depending degeneration in the disks that received MIA. Additionally, MIA produced cell death in the nucleus pulposus cells with an elevated percentage. The injected disk with 0.1 mg MIA demonstrated a progressive degeneration, the disk injected with 0.5 mg MIA induced DD acutely 3 weeks post MIA injection, while the dose of 0.02 mg of MIA did not show much degeneration.ConclusionsWe concluded that 0.1 mg MIA is the most suitable dose to establish a model of DD, which enabled us to replicate the onset, progression, and outcome of diverse histopathologies of DD in the clinic.Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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