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缺氧时肺动脉内皮细胞与肺动脉平滑肌细胞增殖的相互影响 总被引:9,自引:1,他引:8
血管内皮细胞和血管平滑细胞在结构和功能上关系密切,两者的相互在与血管舒缩笔血和壁结构。本文观察了培养的小牛肺动脉内皮细胞(PAECs)和肺动平滑肌细胞(PASMCS)缺氧时在细胞增殖方面的相互影响。PASMCS常氧条件培养基(CM)可使PAECS的^3H-TdR掺入降低约58%,缺氧CM对PAECS的^3H-TdR掺入无明显的抑制作用;PAECS的常氧CM使PASMS的^3H-TdR掺入升高约60 相似文献
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Genetic studies in mice and humans have revealed a pivotal function for transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) in vascular development and maintenance of vascular homeostasis. Mice deficient for various TGF-β signaling components develop an embryonic lethality due to vascular defects. In patients, mutations in TGF-β receptors have been linked to vascular dysplasia like Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Besides indirect effects by regulating the expression of angiogenic regulators, TGF-β also has potent direct effects on endothelial cell growth and migration, and we have proposed that TGF-β regulates the activation state of the endothelium via two opposing type I receptor/Smad pathways, activin receptor-like kinase (ALK)1 and ALK5. TGF-β is also critical for the differentiation of mural precursors into pericytes and smooth muscle cells. Furthermore, defective paracrine TGF-β signaling between endothelial and neighboring mural cells may be responsible for a leaky vessel phenotype that is characteristic of HHT. In this review, we discuss our current understanding of the TGF-β signaling pathway and its regulation of endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cell function. 相似文献
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Kevin A. Harvey Zachary Welch Daniel Sliva Rafat A. Siddiqui 《Molecular and cellular biochemistry》2010,342(1-2):7-19
The role of sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P)-induced Rho kinase (ROCK) activation in the angiogenic responses of pulmonary artery-derived endothelial cells (PAEC) and smooth muscle cells (PASMC) was examined. S1P, a biologically active phospholipid that regulates angiogenesis, promoted PAEC chemotaxis and capillary morphogenesis; furthermore, this activity was unaltered by pretreatment with the pharmacological inhibitor of ROCK, H1152. In contrast, S1P (500 nM) significantly inhibited spontaneous PASMC chemotaxis and differentiation; however, this inhibition was eradicated upon H1152 pretreatment. Similarly, PASMCs transfected with ROCK II siRNA diminished S1P-induced inhibition of the development of multi-cellular structures. Analysis by RT-PCR identified the presence of S1P1 and S1P3 receptors on both PAECs and PASMCs, while S1P2 receptor expression was confined to only PASMCs. Consistent with this observation, the S1P1 and S1P3 receptor antagonist, VPC23019, virtually abolished the S1P-initiated PAEC differentiation but did not impede the S1P-induced inhibition of PASMC differentiation. However, the S1P2 receptor antagonist, JTE013, had no effect on S1P-mediated differentiation of PAECs but abolished the S1P-induced inhibition of PASMC function. Co-cultured endothelial and smooth muscle cells differentiated into “neovascular-like” networks, which were significantly inhibited by S1P. The inhibition of co-culture differentiation in both PAECs and PASMCs was negated by H1152 pretreatment. However, when smooth muscle cells were added to S1P-initiated endothelial cell networks, additional S1P treatment did not inhibit the cellular networks generated by these cells. In conclusion, S1P-induced PAEC angiogenic responses are regulated by S1P1 and/or S1P3 receptors independent of Rho kinase activation, whereas S1P2 receptor-mediated curtailment of PASMC function by S1P. 相似文献
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Sokoya EM Burns AR Setiawan CT Coleman HA Parkington HC Tare M 《American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology》2006,291(1):H385-H393
The mechanisms underlying endothelium-dependent hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) in the middle cerebral artery (MCA) remain largely unresolved. In particular, very little is known regarding the way in which the signal is transmitted from endothelium to smooth muscle. The present study tested the hypothesis that direct communication via myoendothelial gap junctions contributes to the EDHF response in the male rat MCA. EDHF-mediated dilations were elicited in rat MCAs by luminal application of ATP or UTP in the presence of Nomega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester and indomethacin. Maximum dilation to luminal ATP (10(-4) M) was reduced significantly after incubation with a gap peptide cocktail (9 +/- 4%, n = 6) compared with a scrambled gap peptide cocktail (99 +/- 1%, n = 6, P < 0.05). A gap peptide cocktail had no effect on amplitude of endothelial cell hyperpolarization in response to 3 x 10(-5) M UTP (22 +/- 3 vs. 22 +/- 1 mV, n = 4), whereas smooth muscle cell hyperpolarization was significantly attenuated (17 +/- 1 vs. 6 +/- 1 mV, n = 4, P = 0.004). Connexin (Cx) 37 was localized to smooth muscle and Cx43 to endothelium, whereas Cx40 was found in endothelium and smooth muscle. Electron microscopy revealed the existence of frequent myoendothelial junctions. The total number of myoendothelial junctions per 5 microm of MCA sectioned was 2.5 +/- 0.5. Our results suggest that myoendothelial communication contributes to smooth muscle cell hyperpolarization and EDHF dilation in male rat MCA. 相似文献
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转化生长因子β(TGF-β)超家族是一类分泌型多肽信号分子,在调节细胞生长、分化、凋亡和组织稳态方面具有重要功能。对于血管平滑肌细胞,TGF-β可以促进前体细胞向平滑肌细胞分化和维持平滑肌细胞的收缩表型;TGF-β信号通路异常可以引起家族性动脉瘤,如Marfan综合征和Loeys-Dietz综合征等。我们简要综述了TGF-β在调节血管平滑肌细胞分化和表型转换过程中的分子机制研究进展,以及TGF-β调节的平滑肌细胞分化和表型转换异常在动脉瘤中的作用。 相似文献
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Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by excessive proliferation and resistance to apoptosis of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs). MicroRNAs have been implicated in the regulation of cell proliferation and might be implicated in the etiology of PAH. Data from in vivo and in vitro cell culture models showed that hypoxia inhibits microRNA-30c (miR-30c) expression in PASMCs. Inhibition of miR-30c by either hypoxia or AMO-30c results in PASMC proliferation (cell viability, 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine (BrdU) incorporation, proliferating cell nuclear antigen, Ki67, and tubulin polymerization) and the inhibition of apoptosis (cell cycle progression, Cyclin A and Cyclin D, and TUNEL staining). Moreover, down-regulation of miR-30c also results in the phenotype switch from contractile to synthetic PASMC (SM22α and Calponin, osteopontin expression, and wound healing assay). In contrast, these effects were reversed by the application of an miR-30c mimetic under hypoxic conditions. Mechanically, miR-30c inhibited the platelet-derived growth factor receptor β (PDGFRβ) expression by directly binding to the 3′ untranslated region of PDGFRβ mRNA (luciferase reporter assays, and PDGFRβ-masking antisense oligodeoxynucleotides). Pharmacological inhibition of PDGFR by AG-1296 displayed similar effects to the miR-30c mimetic. These data suggest that the down-regulation of miR-30c accounts for the up-regulation of PDGFRβ expression, and subsequent activation of PDGF signaling results in the hypoxia-induced PASMC proliferation and phenotype switching. Therefore, increasing miR-30c expression levels could be explored as a potential new therapy for hypoxia-induced PAH. 相似文献
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Matsushita T Rama A Charolidi N Dupont E Severs NJ 《European journal of cell biology》2007,86(10):617-628
Transition of arterial smooth muscle cells from the contractile to the synthetic phenotype in vivo is associated with up-regulation of the gap-junctional protein, connexin43 (Cx43). However, the role of increased Cx43 expression in relation to the characteristic features of the synthetic phenotype – altered growth, differentiation or synthetic activity – has not previously been defined. In the present study, growth was induced in cultured human aortic smooth muscle cells by treatment with thrombin and with PDGF-bb; growth arrest was induced by serum deprivation and contact inhibition. Alterations in Cx43 expression and gap-junctional communication were analyzed in relation to expression of markers for contractile differentiation and extracellular matrix synthesis. Treatment with thrombin, but not PDGF-bb, led to up-regulation of Cx43 gap junctions, increased synthetic activity yet also enhanced contractile differentiation. Inhibition of growth by deprivation of serum growth factors in sub-confluent cultures had no effect on Cx43 expression or contractile differentiation. Growth arrest by contact inhibition led to progressive reduction in Cx43 expression, in parallel with progressive increase in expression of differentiation markers but no alteration in synthetic activity. Of a range of stimuli examined, only thrombin had the combined effect of increasing Cx43 gap-junction communication, growth and synthesis, yet it also enhanced contractile differentiation. Down-regulation of Cx43 and improved contractile differentiation occurred only when growth arrest was induced through the contact–inhibition pathway, though, in this instance, synthesis remained undiminished. We conclude that Cx43 levels, though having common correlates, are not exclusively linked to the cell phenotype or the state of growth. 相似文献
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The proliferation of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) plays a role in pulmonary vascular remodeling (PVR). Recently, it was shown that vascular smooth muscular cell phenotype modulation is important for their proliferation in other diseases. However, little is known about the role of human PASMC phenotype modulation in the proliferation induced by hypoxia and its molecular mechanism during PVR. In this study, we found using primary cultured human PASMCs that hypoxia suppressed the expression of endogenous PKGIα, which was reversed by transfection with a recombinant adenovirus containing the full-length cDNA of PKGIα (Ad-PKGIα). Ad-PKGIα transfection significantly attenuated the hypoxia-induced downregulation of the expression of smooth muscle α-actin (SM-α-actin), myosin heavy chain (MHC) and calponin in PASMCs, indicating that hypoxia-induced phenotype modulation was blocked. Furthermore, flow cytometry and 3H-TdR incorporation demonstrated that hypoxia-induced PASMC proliferation was suppressed by upregulation of PKGIα. These results suggest that enhanced PKGIα expression inhibited hypoxia-induced PASMC phenotype modulation and that it could reverse the proliferation of PASMCs significantly. Moreover, our previous work has demonstrated that Akt protein is activated in the process of hypoxia-induced proliferation of human PASMCs. Interestingly, we found that Akt was not activated by hypoxia when PASMC phenotype modulation was blocked by Ad-PKGIα. This result suggests that blocking phenotype modulation might be a key up-stream regulatory target. 相似文献
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Expression of connexin 37, 40 and 43 in rat mesenteric arterioles and resistance arteries 总被引:2,自引:2,他引:0
Gustafsson F Mikkelsen HB Arensbak B Thuneberg L Neve S Jensen LJ Holstein-Rathlou NH 《Histochemistry and cell biology》2003,119(2):139-148
Connexins are the protein constituents of gap junctions which mediate intercellular communication in most tissues. In arterioles gap junctions appear to be important for conduction of vasomotor responses along the vessel. Studies of the expression pattern of connexin isoforms in the microcirculation are sparse. We investigated the expression of the three major vascular connexins in mesenteric arterioles (diameter <50 micro m) from male Sprague-Dawley rats, since conducted vasomotor responses have been described in these vessels. The findings were compared with those obtained from upstream small resistance arteries. Indirect immunofluorescence techniques were used on whole mounts of mesenteric arterioles and on frozen sections of resistance arteries (diameter approximately 300 micro m). Mesenteric arterioles expressed Cx40 and Cx43 in the endothelial layer, and Cx37 was found in most but not all vessels. Connexins were not demonstrated in the media. In resistance arteries endothelial cells expressed Cx37, Cx40 and Cx43. Ultrastructural studies of mesenteric arterioles confirmed that gap junction plaques between endothelial cells are present, whereas myoendothelial, or smooth muscle cell gap junctions could not be demonstrated. The findings suggest that smooth muscle cells in mesenteric arterioles may not be well coupled and favour that conducted vasomotor responses in these vessels are propagated through the endothelial cell layer. 相似文献
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血管内皮细胞和血管平滑肌细胞在结构和功能上关系密切,二者的相互关系在血管舒缩和血管壁结构的调节中起重要作用。本文观察了培养的小牛肺动脉内皮细胞(PAEC)和肺动脉平滑肌细胞(PASM)在细胞增殖方面的相互调节作用。混合培养的PAEC和PASM细胞的3H-TdR参入明显降低(P<0.001,与对照组相比)。无论向培养的PAEC和PASM中分别加入PASM和PAEC的条件培养基还是二者共培养时,均发现PAEC的3H-TdR参入明显降低,而PASM的3H-TdR明显升高(P<0.05,与对照组相比)。流式细胞测定也发现共培养时PAEC的G1期细胞增多,G2/M期细胞减少;而PASM的G1期细胞减少,G2/M期细胞增多。共培养的PASM细胞内cAMP增加,cGMP含量降低;而PAEC细胞的cAMP和cGMP含量均降低(P<0.01,与对照组相比)。上述结果提示,PAEC和PASM相互作用可能通过第二信使而调节它们本身的增殖 相似文献
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Xiao-Jian Han Wei-Fang Zhang Qin Wang Min Li Chun-Bo Zhang Zhang-Jian Yang Ren-Jie Tan Li-Jun Gan Le-Ling Zhang Xue-Mei Lan Fang-Lin Zhang Tao Hong Li-Ping Jiang 《Journal of cellular and molecular medicine》2021,25(22):10663-10673
The proliferation of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) is an important cause of pulmonary vascular remodelling in hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension (HPH). However, its underlying mechanism has not been well elucidated. Connexin 43 (Cx43) plays crucial roles in vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation in various cardiovascular diseases. Here, the male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were exposed to hypoxia (10% O2) for 21 days to induce rat HPH model. PASMCs were treated with CoCl2 (200 µM) for 24 h to establish the HPH cell model. It was found that hypoxia up-regulated the expression of Cx43 and phosphorylation of Cx43 at Ser 368 in rat pulmonary arteries and PASMCs, and stimulated the proliferation and migration of PASMCs. HIF-1α inhibitor echinomycin attenuated the CoCl2-induced Cx43 expression and phosphorylation of Cx43 at Ser 368 in PASMCs. The interaction between HIF-1α and Cx43 promotor was also identified using chromatin immunoprecipitation assay. Moreover, Cx43 specific blocker (37,43Gap27) or knockdown of Cx43 efficiently alleviated the proliferation and migration of PASMCs under chemically induced hypoxia. Therefore, the results above suggest that HIF-1α, as an upstream regulator, promotes the expression of Cx43, and the HIF-1α/Cx43 axis regulates the proliferation and migration of PASMCs in HPH. 相似文献
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《Cell communication & adhesion》2013,20(4-6):219-223
Gap junctions are composed of connexins that form transmembrane channels between adjacent cells. The C-terminal tail of connexin-43 (Cx43), the most widely expressed connexin member, has been implicated in the regulation of Cx43 channel gating. Interestingly, channel-independent processes regulated by Cx43 have also been postulated. In our studies to elucidate the mechanism of Cx43 channel gating by growth factors and to explore additional functions of gap junctions, we have identified three interacting partners of the C-terminal tail of Cx43 (Cx43CT). (i) the c-Src tyrosine kinase, which phosphorylates Cx43CT and is involved in G protein-mediated inhibition of Cx43 gap junctional communication, (ii) the ZO-1 ‘scaffold’ protein, which might recruit signaling proteins into Cx43-based gap junctions. (iii) microtubules (consisting of α/β-tubulin dimers), which extend with their distal ends to Cx43-based gap junctions, suggesting that Cx43 gap junctions may play a novel role in regulating microtubule stability in contacted cells. Here we show that Cx43 binds α-tubulin equally well as β-tubulin. In addition, we show that the second, but not the first, PDZ domain of ZO-1 binds directly to Cx43, and we confirm that the very C-terminal isoleucine residue of Cx43 is critical for ZO-1 binding. 相似文献
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Chen S Patel JM Block ER 《American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology》2000,279(5):L849-L856
Angiotensin (ANG) IV stimulation of pulmonary artery (PA) endothelial cells (PAECs) but not of PA smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) resulted in significant increased production of cGMP in PASMCs. ANG IV receptors are not present in PASMCs, and PASMC nitric oxide synthase activity was not altered by ANG IV. ANG IV caused a dose-dependent vasodilation of U-46619-precontracted endothelium-intact but not endothelium-denuded PAs, and this response was blocked by the ANG IV receptor antagonist divalinal ANG IV but not by ANG II type 1 and 2 receptor blockers. ANG IV receptor-mediated increased intracellular Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) release from intracellular stores in PAECs was blocked by divalinal ANG IV as well as by the G protein, phospholipase C, and phosphoinositide (PI) 3-kinase inhibitors guanosine 5'-O-(2-thiodiphosphate), U-73122, and LY-294002, respectively, and was regulated by both PI 3-kinase- and ryanodine-sensitive Ca(2+) stores. Basal and ANG IV-mediated vasorelaxation of endothelium-denuded PAs was restored by exogenous PAECs but not by exogenous PAECs pretreated with the intracellular Ca(2+) chelator 1,2-bis(o-aminophenoxy)ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid-AM. These results demonstrate that ANG IV-mediated vasodilation of PAs is endothelium dependent and regulated by [Ca(2+)](i) release through receptor-coupled G protein-phospholipase C-PI 3-kinase signaling mechanisms. 相似文献
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《Prostaglandins, leukotrienes, and essential fatty acids》2014,90(4):89-98
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive condition in which remodeling of the pulmonary vasculature plays an important role. The vascular remodeling involves pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cell (PASMC) proliferation and apoptosis, which is affected by several arachidonic acid metabolites. 15-oxo-Eicosatetraenoic acid (15-oxo-ETE) is one of the metabolites. However, the biological role of 15-oxo-ETE in PASMCs remains unknown. Here we show evidence for the modulation of PASMC apoptosis by 15-oxo-ETE. We found that 15-oxo-ETE increased rat and human PASMC viability. Consistently, 15-oxo-ETE attenuated nuclear fragmentation and DNA strand breaks, decreased caspase-3 activity, reduced mitochondrial depolarization, and increased Bcl-2 expression. Interestingly, the anti-apoptotic effect of 15-oxo-ETE was lost when the Akt intracellular signaling pathway was blocked. Taken together, we have established that 15-oxo-ETE protects PASMCs against apoptosis through the Akt pathway. These results suggest that 15-oxo-ETE seems to be a potential agent for PAH controls by preventing unwanted PASMC death. 相似文献
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Ren W Watts SW Fanburg BL 《American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology》2011,300(3):L486-L497
The serotonin transporter (SERT) and the platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR) have been implicated in both clinical and experimental pulmonary hypertension (PH) and the facilitation of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cell (PASMC) growth. To gain a better understanding of the possible relationship of these two cell surface molecules we have explored interactions between SERT and PDGFR. We have previously demonstrated that SERT transactivates PDGFRβ in serotonin-stimulated PASMC proliferation. We now provide evidence for a role for SERT in PDGF-BB signaling and PASMC proliferation by using pharmacological inhibitors, genetic ablation, and construct overexpression of SERT. The results show that four tested SERT blockers dose dependently inhibit PDGF-stimulated human and bovine PASMC proliferation with comparable efficacy to that of PDGFR inhibitors, whereas 5-HT1B or 5-HT2A receptor inhibitors had no effect. Combinations of the SERT and PDGFR inhibitors led to synergistic/additive inhibition. Similarly, PDGF-induced PASMC proliferation was attenuated by small interfering RNA downregulation of SERT. Inhibition of SERT in PASMCs attenuated PDGF-induced phosphorylation of PDGFRβ, Akt, and p38 but not Erk. Overexpression of SERT in HEK293 cells led to enhanced Akt phosphorylation by PDGF, which was blunted by a SERT PDZ motif mutant, indicating the mechanistic need for the PDZ motif of SERT in PDGF signaling. Furthermore, coimmunoprecipitation experiments showed that SERT and PDGFRβ become physically associated upon PDGF stimulation. In total, the data show for the first time an important interactive relationship between SERT and the PDGFRβ in the production of PASMC proliferation triggered by PDGF that may be important in PH. 相似文献
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Jun Ma Shujun Liang Zhigang Wang Lei Zhang Jing Jiang Jinhua Zheng Lei Yu Xiaodong Zheng Ruifang Wang Daling Zhu 《Journal of cellular physiology》2010,222(1):82-94
15‐Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (15‐HETE), a product of arachidonic acid (AA) catalyzed by 15‐lipoxygenase (15‐LO), plays an essential role in hypoxic pulmonary arterial hypertension. We have previously shown that 15‐HETE inhibits apoptosis in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs). To test the hypothesis that such an effect is attributable to the hypoxia‐induced pulmonary vascular remodeling (PVR), we performed these studies. We found subtle thickening of proximal media/adventitia of the pulmonary arteries (PA) in rats that had been exposed to hypoxia. This was associated with an up‐regulation of the anti‐apoptotic Bcl‐2 expression and down‐regulation of pro‐apoptotic caspase‐3 and Bax expression in PA homogenates. Nordihydroguaiaretic acid (NDGA), which inhibits the generation of endogenous 15‐HETE, reversed all the alterations following hypoxia. In situ hybridization histochemistry and immunocytochemistry showed that the 15‐LO‐1 mRNA and protein were localized in pulmonary artery endothelial cells (PAECs), while the 15‐LO‐2 mRNA and protein were localized in both PAECs and PASMCs. Furthermore, the Rho‐kinase (ROCK) pathway was activated by both endogenous and exogenous 15‐HETE, alleviating the serum deprivation (SD)‐induced PASMC apoptosis. Thus, these findings indicate that 15‐HETE protects PASMC from apoptosis, contributing to pulmonary vascular medial thickening, and the effect is, at least in part, mediated via the ROCK pathway. J. Cell. Physiol. 222:82–94, 2010. © 2009 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. 相似文献