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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 6, Pages 1071-1079Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2009.10.008
Keywords
AAV; IGF-1; Angiogenesis; MicroSPECT-CT; Molecular imaging; Myocardial infarction
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- Starr foundation
- NIH [R01 HL65662]
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Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) has been found to exert favorable effects on angiogenesis in prior animal studies. This study explored the long-term effect of IGF-1 on angiogenesis using microSPECT-CT in infarcted rat hearts after delivering human IGF-1 gene by adeno-associated virus (AAV). Myocardial infarction (MI) was induced in Sprague-Dawley rats by ligation of the proximal anterior coronary artery and a total of 10(11) AAV-CMV-lacZ (control) or IGF-1 vectors were injected around the pen-infarct area. IGF-1 expression by AAV stably transduced heart muscle for up to 16 weeks post-MI and immunohistochemistry revealed a remarkable increase in capillary density. A Tc-99m-labeled RGD peptide (NC100692, GE Healthcare) was used to assess temporal and regional alpha(v) integrin activation. Rats were injected with NC100692 followed by Tl-201 chloride and in vivo microSPECT-CT imaging was performed. After imaging, hearts were excised and cut for quantitative gamma-well counting (GWC). NC100692 retention was significantly increased in hypoperfused regions of both lacZ and IGF-1 rats at 4 and 16 weeks post-MI. Significantly higher activation of alpha(v), integrin was observed in IGF-1 rats at 4 weeks after treatment compared with control group, although the activation was lower in the IGF-1 group at 16 weeks. Local IGF-1 gene delivery by AAV can render a sustained transduction and improve cardiac function post-MI. IGF-1 expression contributes to enhanced alpha(v) integrin activation which is linked to angiogenesis. MicroSPECT-CT imaging with Tc-99m-NC100692 and quantitative GWC successfully assessed differences in alpha(v) integrin activation between IGF-1-treated and control animals post-MI. Crown Copyright (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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