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MATRIX BIOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 110-123Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2005.01.002
Keywords
thrombospondin-1; vascular smooth muscle cells; angiogenesis; proliferation chemotaxis
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA92644] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL54390, HL68003] Funding Source: Medline
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We have reexamined the role of endogenous thrombospondin-1 (TSP1) in growth and motility of vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs). Based on the ability of aortic-derived SMCs isolated from TSP1 null mice and grown in the absence of exogenous TSP1 to grow at comparable rates and to a slightly higher density than equivalent cells from wild-type mice, TSP1 is not necessary for their growth. Low concentrations of exogenous TSP1 stimulate growth of TSP1 null SMCs, but higher doses of TSP1 or its C-terminal domain are inhibitory. However, SMCs from TSP1 null mice are selectively deficient in chemotactic and proliferative responses to platelet-derived growth factor and in outgrowth in three-dimensional cultures. Recombinant portions of the N- and C-terminal domains of TSP1 stimulate SMC chemotaxis through different integrin receptors. Based on these data, the relative deficiency in SMC outgrowth during an ex vivo angiogenic response of muscle tissue from TSP1 null mice is probably due to restriction of platelet-derived growth factor dependent SMC migration and/or proliferation. © 2005 Elsevier B.V./International Society of Matrix Biology. All rights reserved.
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