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PATHOLOGY RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
卷 203, 期 1, 页码 21-29出版社
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.prp.2006.08.008
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inflammatory aortic aneurysm; myofibroblast; hypoxia; morphometry; immunohistochemistry
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To clarify the role of myofibroblasts in the development of inflammatory aortic aneurysm (IAA), 11 cases of IAA (69.2 +/- 8.59 years) were investigated immunohistochemically and were morphometrically compared with 12 agematched cases of atherosclerotic abdominal aneurysm (AAA, 69.6 +/- 5.94 years). The positivity of mantle sign and CRP was significantly higher in the IAA group than in the AAA group. The wall of IAA (5.41 +/- 1.47 mm) was significantly thicker than that of AAA (2.68 +/- 0.71 mm). A significant increase in the expression of oc-smooth muscle actin was found in adventitial fibroblasts of IAA compared to those of AAA. The cell density and MIB-1 index of adventitial myofibroblasts were significantly higher in IAA than in AAA (cell density: 1.69 +/- 0.51 vs. 1.09 +/- 0.4 x 10(3) cells/mm(2); MIB-1 index: 5.25 +/- 2.97% vs. 1.55 +/- 0.71%). IAA showed a significantly lower area ratio (MAR) of adventitial microvessels than did AAA (2.92 +/- 1.49% vs. 7.51 +/- 2.64%). However, there was no significant difference in microvessel density (MVD) between IAA and AAA (84.62 +/- 50.5 vs. 65.1 +/- 32.6 vessel S/mm(2)). In some cases of IAA, adventitial myofibroblasts expressed hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha in their cytoplasm or nuclei while it was not detected in AAA. These findings suggest that the development of INA may be partly mediated by the proliferation of adventitial myofibroblasts, which might be related to tissue hypoxia. (c) 2006 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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