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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
卷 8, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-20763-w
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- US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [HL107361]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
- National Science Foundation Physics Frontier Center [PHY 1430124]
- Johns Hopkins University
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [ZIAAG000236, ZIAAG000237, ZIAAG000239, ZIAAG000240] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Here we report exquisitely distinct material properties of primary vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells isolated from the thoracic aorta of adult (8 months) vs. aged (30 months) F344XBN rats. Individual VSM cells derived from the aged animals showed a tense internal network of the actin cytoskeleton (CSK), exhibiting increased stiffness (elastic) and frictional (loss) moduli than those derived from the adult animals over a wide frequency range of the imposed oscillatory deformation. This discrete mechanical response was long-lived in culture and persistent across a physiological range of matrix rigidity. Strikingly, the pro-fibrotic transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) emerged as a specific modifier of age-associated VSM stiffening in vitro. TGF beta 1 reinforced the mechanical phenotype of arterial aging in VSM cells on multiple time and length scales through clustering of mechanosensitive alpha(5)beta(1) and alpha(v)beta(3) integrins. Taken together, these studies identify a novel nodal point for the long-range regulation of VSM stiffness and serve as a proof-of-concept that the broad-based inhibition of TGF beta 1 expression, or TGF beta 1 signal transduction in VSM, may be a useful therapeutic approach to mitigate the pathologic progression of central arterial wall stiffening associated with aging.
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