期刊
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY
卷 121, 期 3, 页码 670-677出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00307.2016
关键词
NF-kappa B; foam cell; macrophage; intermittent hypoxia; IKK-beta
资金
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [1P01-HL-098053]
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder characterized by intermittent hypoxia (IH). Clinical studies have previously shown that OSA is an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis. Atherogenicity in OSA patients has been assumed to be associated with the NF-kappa B pathways. Although foam cells are considered to be a hallmark of atherosclerosis, how IH as in OSA affects their development has not been fully understood. Therefore, we hypothesized that IH induces macrophage foam cell formation through NF-kappa B pathway activation. To test this hypothesis, peritoneal macrophages collected from myeloid- restricted IKK-beta-deleted mice were incubated with native LDL and exposed to either IH or normoxia. After exposure, NF-kappa B pathway activity and intracellular cholesterol were measured. In control macrophages, IH significantly increased NF-kappa B pathway activity by 93% compared with normoxia (P < 0.05). However, such response to IH was diminished by IKK-beta deletion (increased by + 31% compared with normoxia; P = 0.64), suggesting that IKK-beta is critical for IH-induced NF-kappa B pathway activation. Likewise, in control macrophages, total cholesterol was increased in IH compared with normoxia (65.7 +/- 3.8 mu g/mg cellular protein and 53.2 +/- 1.2, respectively; P < 0.05). However, this IH-induced foam cell formation was disappeared when IKK-beta was deleted (52.2 +/- 1.2 mu g/mg cellular protein for IH and 46.3 +/- 1.7 for normoxia; P = 0.55). This IH-mediated effect still existed in macrophages without LDL receptor. Taken together, our findings show that IH activates the IKK-beta dependent NF-kappa B pathway and that this, in turn, induces foam cell formation in murine macrophages.
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