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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
Volume 8, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.119.012341
Keywords
abdominal aortic aneurysm; angiotensin receptor; matrix metalloproteinases; vaccine
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- Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China [91439207]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81600390, 81670461, 81400314, 81500388, 81470494]
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Background-We have developed a peptide vaccine named ATRQ beta-001, which was proved to retard signal transduction initiated by angiotensin II (Ang II). Ang II was implicated in abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) progression, but whether the ATRQ beta-001 vaccine would prevent AAA is unknown. Methods and Results-Ang II-infused ApoE(-/-) mice and calcium phosphate-induced AAA in C57BL/6 mice were used to verify the efficiency of ATRQ beta-001 vaccine in AAA. Results demonstrated that the vaccine effectively restrained the aneurysmal dilation and vascular wall destruction of aorta in both animal models, beyond anti-hypertensive effects. In Ang II-induced AAA vascular sections, Immunohistochemical staining showed that the vaccine notably constrained vascular inflammation and vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) phenotypic transition, concurrently reduced macrophages infiltration. In cultured VSMC, the anti-ATR-001 antibody inhibited osteopontin secretion induced by Ang II, thereby impeded macrophage migration while co-culture. Furthermore, metalloproteinases and other matrix proteolytic enzymes were also found to be limited by the vaccine in vivo and in vitro. Conclusions-ATRQ beta-001 vaccine prevented AAA initiation and progression in both Ang II and calcium phosphate-induced AAA models. And the beneficial effects were played beyond decrease of blood pressure, which provided a novel and promising method to take precautions against AAA.
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