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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY
卷 42, 期 5, 页码 991-1000出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.yjmcc.2007.02.009
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fibrosis; deoxycorticosterone acetate-salt hypertension; alpha 8 beta 1 integrin; discoidin domain receptor 2; smooth muscle alpha-actin; transforming growth; factor-beta; lipid rafts
The objective of this study was to investigate the presence of Thy-1 in the myocardium and on cardiac fibroblasts and to determine whether or not cardiac fibroblasts form a heterogeneous population in term of Thy-1 expression. Thy-1 expression was examined by immunohistology of ventricular sections from normal and deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt hypertensive rats. Thy-1 immunostaining was detected in connective tissue on alpha 8 integrin-positive and discoidin domain receptor 2 (DDR2)-positive fibroblasts. Enhanced Thy-1 staining was observed in the hearts of DOCA-salt rats particularly in areas of interstitial fibrosis. Cardiac mRNA analysis confirmed the increased Thy-1 expression. On cultured cardiac fibroblasts, flow cytofluorometry showed that cells, from primary culture to passage 4, were double positive for Thy-1 and for both a8 integrin and DDR2. Analysis of isolated lipid rafts by detergent-free sucrose gradient indicated that Thy-1 protein was probably located in these structures, but it may be located on a membrane microdomain slightly different from those of caveolin-1, as revealed by immunocytochemistry. Differentiation of fibroblasts into myofibroblasts being a characteristic of cardiac fibrosis and scarring, cardiac fibroblasts were stimulated in the presence of transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) or connective tissue growth factor. While the expression of smooth muscle alpha-actin and alpha 8 integrin doubled, Thy-1 level, measured by Western blotting and flow cyrofluorometry, was not influenced by TGF-beta. These results demonstrate that cardiac fibroblasts express Thy-1 and form a homogeneous population. Thy-1 expression also appears to be independent of fibroblast differentiation. The dichotomy between the increased Tthy-1 expression in the fibrotic area and the lack of association with fibroblast differentiation suggests that Thy-I may represent a marker of fibroblast proliferation in thc myocardium. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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