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FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 1704-1716Publisher
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.11-197061
Keywords
amphiregulin; heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor; HB-EGF; proliferation; migration; goblet cell differentiation
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- Richard and Edith Strauss Canada Foundation
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP-93747]
- Strauss Canada Foundation
- Canadian Thoracic Society
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Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that is associated with airway remodeling, including hyperplasia of airway epithelial cells and airway smooth muscle cells, and goblet cell differentiation. We wished to address the potential role of histamine, a key biogenic amine involved in allergic reactions, in airway remodeling through the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathway. Here, we demonstrate that histamine releases 2 EGFR ligands, amphiregulin and heparin-binding epidermal growth factor-like growth factor (HB-EGF), from airway epithelial cells. Amphiregulin and HB-EGF were expressed in airway epithelium of patients with asthma. Histamine up-regulated their mRNA expression (amphiregulin 3.2-fold, P<0.001; HB-EGF 2.3-fold, P<0.05) and triggered their release (amphiregulin EC50 0.50 mu M, 31.2 +/- 2.7 pg/ml with 10 mu M histamine, P<0.01; HB-EGF EC50 0.54 mu M, 78.5 +/- 1.8 pg/ml with 10 mu M histamine, P<0.001) compared to vehicle control (amphiregulin 19.3 +/- 0.9 pg/ml; HB-EGF 60.2 +/- 1.0 pg/ml), in airway epithelial cells. Histamine increased EGFR phosphorylation (2.1-fold by Western blot analysis) and induced goblet cell differentiation (CLCA1 up-regulation by real-time qPCR) in normal human bronchial epithelial (NHBE) cells. Moreover, amphiregulin and HB-EGF caused proliferation and migration of both NHBE cells and human airway smooth muscle cells. These results suggest that histamine may induce airway remodeling via the epithelial-derived EGFR ligands amphiregulin and HB-EGF.-Hirota, N., Risse, P.-A., Novali, M., McGovern, T., Al-Alwan, L., McCuaig, S., Proud, D., Hayden, P., Hamid, Q., Martin, J. G. Histamine may induce airway remodeling through release of epidermal growth factor receptor ligands from bronchial epithelial cells. FASEB J. 26, 1704-1716 (2012). www.fasebj.org
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