Lentiviral-human heme oxygenase targeting endothelium improved vascular function in angiotensin II animal model of hypertension
| Autor: | David E. Stec, Luigi Fabrizio Rodella, John Quilley, Kazuyoshi Inoue, Komal Sodhi, Luca Vanella, Nader G. Abraham, Lucrezia Germinario, Attallah Kappas, Jian Cao, Rita Rezzani |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Endothelium Genetic Vectors Blood Pressure Biology Kidney Proinflammatory cytokine Animals Genetically Modified Rats Sprague-Dawley Superoxides Internal medicine Renin–angiotensin system Genetics medicine Animals Humans Molecular Biology Research Articles Inflammation Angiotensin II Lentivirus Kidney metabolism Genetic Therapy Rats Heme oxygenase Vasodilation Disease Models Animal Endocrinology Blood pressure medicine.anatomical_structure HEK293 Cells Hypertension Molecular Medicine Adiponectin Endothelium Vascular Nitric Oxide Synthase Biomarkers Heme Oxygenase-1 Signal Transduction |
| Zdroj: | Human gene therapy. 22(3) |
| ISSN: | 1557-7422 |
| Popis: | We examined the hypothesis that vascular and renal dysfunction caused by angiotensin II (Ang II) through increased levels of blood pressure, inflammatory cytokines, and oxidative stress in Sprague–Dawley rats can be prevented by lentiviral-mediated delivery of endothelial heme oxygenase (HO)-1. We targeted the vascular endothelium using a lentiviral construct expressing human HO-1 under the control of the endothelium-specific promoter VE-cadherin (VECAD-HO-1) and examined the effect of long-term human HO-1 expression on blood pressure in Ang II-mediated increases in blood pressure and oxidant stress. A bolus injection of VECAD-HO-1 into the renal artery resulted in expression of human HO-1 for up to 6–9 weeks. Sprague–Dawley rats were implanted with Ang II minipumps and treated with lentivirus carrying either the HO-1 or green fluorescent protein. Renal tissue from VECAD-HO-1-transduced rats expresses human HO-1 mRNA and proteins without an effect on endogenous HO-1. Infusion of Ang II increased blood pressure (p |
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