Journal
GENE THERAPY
Volume 16, Issue 9, Pages 1154-1162Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/gt.2009.63
Keywords
neointima; atherosclerosis; extracellular matrix; proteoglycans
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- Iranian ministry of Health and Medical Education
- British Heart Foundation Intermediate Research [FS/04/026]
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Poor long-term graft patency remains a major limitation of coronary artery bypass grafting using saphenous vein aortocoronary grafts. Neointimal hyperplasia (NIH) represents the principal mechanism of graft failure; a substantial body of evidence implicates transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) in the pathogenesis of NIH. The small leucine-rich proteoglycans decorin and fibromodulin possess TGF-beta-antagonist activity to differing extents and with differing avidities for the isoforms of TGF-beta. We compared their ability to inhibit NIH in an ex vivo model of human saphenous vein organ culture following adenovirus-mediated gene transfer. Surgically prepared human saphenous vein segments received adenovirus expressing fibromodulin (Ad5-Fmod), decorin (Ad5-Dcn), beta-galactosidase (Ad5-lacZ) or vehicle-only. Computerized morphometry 14 days after infection revealed significantly reduced neointimal area, neointimal thickness and intima/media ratio in Ad5-Fmod- and Ad5-Dcn-infected veins. Each parameter was significantly smaller in Ad5-Fmod- than in Ad5-Dcn-exposed segments. Fibrillar collagen content and levels of biologically active TGF-beta were lower in vessels receiving Ad5-Fmod or Ad5-Dcn than in those receiving Ad5-lacZ or vehicle-only. Fibromodulin is a more potent inhibitor of NIH in cultured human saphenous vein than decorin and offers potential therapeutic benefits in saphenous vein graft failure (and possibly in other forms of accelerated atherosclerosis) by reduction of associated neointima formation. Gene Therapy (2009) 16, 1154-1162; doi: 10.1038/gt.2009.63; published online 28 May 2009
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