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      Oligonucleotide Microarrays Reveal Regulated Genes Related to Inward Arterial Remodeling Induced by Urokinase Plasminogen Activator

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          Accumulating evidence suggests that urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA) is involved in vascular remodeling and lumen stenosis after angioplasty and stenting. We have shown previously that increased uPA expression greatly promotes neointima formation and inward arterial remodeling after balloon injury. To evaluate the role of inflammation in early mechanisms responsible for inward arterial remodeling induced by uPA and elucidate the mechanisms of remodeling, we characterized changes in the expression profiles of 8,799 genes in injured rat carotid arteries 1 and 4 days after recombinant uPA treatment compared to vehicle. We used a standard model of the balloon catheter injury of the rat carotid followed by periadventitial application to the injured vessel of either uPA dissolved in Pluronic gel, or plain gel. Vessels were harvested and analyzed by immunohistochemistry, morphometry, microarray gene expression profiling and quantitative RT-PCR. Periadventitial application of uPA significantly reduced lumen size and vessel area encompassed by the external elastic lamina at both 1 and 4 days after treatment. Inflammatory cells accumulated in the arterial adventitia at both 1 and 4 days after uPA treatment. On the 4th day, increases in the areas and arterial cell numbers of all arterial layers were found. Among 79 differentially expressed known genes 1 day after uPA application, 12 proinflammatory genes, including TNF-α and TACE, and 15 genes related to mitochondrial metabolism and oxidative stress regulation were identified. Four days after injury in uPA-treated arteries, 3 proinflammatory and 2 oxidation-related genes were differentially expressed. We conclude that uPA likely promotes inward arterial remodeling by regulating oxidative stress and inflammation after arterial injury.

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                Journal
                JVR
                J Vasc Res
                10.1159/issn.1018-1172
                Journal of Vascular Research
                S. Karger AG
                1018-1172
                1423-0135
                2009
                April 2009
                24 September 2008
                : 46
                : 3
                : 177-187
                Affiliations
                aCardiology Research Center, Moscow, and bLomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; cAab Cardiovascular Research Institute, University Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, N.Y., USA
                Article
                156703 J Vasc Res 2009;46:177–187
                10.1159/000156703
                18812699
                1b8c7510-cec8-41c5-b6ea-c76eade47a68
                © 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel

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                History
                : 13 January 2008
                : 18 March 2008
                Page count
                Figures: 2, Tables: 4, References: 44, Pages: 11
                Categories
                Research Paper

                General medicine,Neurology,Cardiovascular Medicine,Internal medicine,Nephrology
                Urokinase plasminogen activator,Inward arterial remodeling,Inflammation,Microarray,Oxidative stress

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