GUO Wei, WANG Peng, ZHENG Mingxue, WANG Kun, GAO Shuting, YANG Yan
Objective To study the anti-inflammatory effect of hyaluronic acid combined with metronidazole or periocline on chronic periodontitis.Methods The periodontitis model of rats was established. According to the negative control group, the positive control group, the metronidazole group, the hyaluronic acid group, the metronidazole combined with hyaluronic acid group, the periocline group, and the periocline combined with hyaluronic acid group, the rats were divided into 7 groups, with 10 rats in each group. The expression levels of TNF-α and IL-1β protein in gingival crevicular fluid were measured by ELISA 2 h, 6 h, 24 h and 5 d after the treatment, then MMP8 and TIMP1 expressed in gingival epithelium were measured 24 h and 5 d after the treatment.Results Two hours after the treatment, the expression of TNF-α and IL-1 β in all experiment groups was significantly inhibited, P<0.01, especially in hyaluronic acid group, metronidazole combined with hyaluronic acid group, and periocline combined with hyaluronic acid group, P<0.01; 24 hours after the treatment, the inhibition of IL-1 β in metronidazole combined with hyaluronic acid group was significant; 5 days after the treatment, periocline combined with hyaluronic acid group still had a slow inhibition of TNF-α. Twenty-four hours after the treatment, MMP8 expression in all experiment groups showed a downward trend, P<0.01, while the expression of TIMP1 significantly increased, P<0.01, especially in metronidazole combined with hyaluronic acid group, periocline group and periocline combined with hyaluronic acid group; 5 days after the treatment, the expression of TIMP1 in Metronidazole combined with hyaluronic acid group showed an upward trend, P<0.01.Conclusion Local application of metronidazole, hyaluronic acid and Periocline has obvious effect on the early stage of inflammation, but the long-term maintenance effect is not good; the combination of metronidazole and hyaluronic acid, periocline and hyaluronic acid is better than single application. In contrast, the combination of metronidazole and hyaluronic acid has more obvious advantages in five-day continuous anti-inflammatory effect.