Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 288, Issue 5, Pages H2244-H2252Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00428.2003
Keywords
vascular smooth muscle; intimal hyperplasia; interstitial flow
Funding
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL-35549] Funding Source: Medline
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Vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC) migration is a hallmark of intimal hyperplasia (IH), the progression of which is affected by hemodynamic conditions at the diseased site. The realization that SMCs are exposed to blood flow in both denuded vessels (direct blood flow) and intact vessels (interstitial blood flow) motivated this study of the effects of fluid flow shear stress (SS) on SMC migration. Rat aortic SMCs were seeded onto Matrigel-coated cell culture inserts, and their migratory activity toward PDGF-BB when exposed to SS in a rotating disk apparatus was quantified. Four hours of either 10 or 20 dyn/cm(2) SS significantly inhibited SMC migration to the bottom side of the insert. This inhibition was associated with downregulation of SMC matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 activation. Four hours of 10 dyn/cm(2) SS also drastically increased SMC production of NO. A NO synthase inhibitor (NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester; 100 mu M) abolished the shear-induced increase in SMC NO production as well as the inhibition of migration and MMP-2 activity. A NO donor (S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine; 500 mu M) suppressed SMC migration via the reduction of both total and active MMP-2 levels. Addition of 10 mu M MMP-2 inhibitor I to inserts significantly reduced SMC migration. Western blots showed no effect of 4 h of 20 dyn/cm(2) SS on SMC production of PDGF-AA, another chemical known to suppress SMC migration. Thus it appears that SS acts to suppress SMC migration by upregulating the cellular production of NO, which in turn inhibits MMP-2 activity.
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