Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibition Ameliorates Inflammation and Experimental Pulmonary Hypertension

Autor: Angeles Fernandez-Gonzalez, Nicolas Christodoulou, Laura E. Fredenburgh, Helen Christou, Paul B. Dieffenbach, Hannes Hudalla, Gareth R. Willis, Evgenia J. Filatava, Zoe Michael, Robert S. Stearman, Mark W. Geraci, Stella Kourembanas
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
0301 basic medicine
Clinical Biochemistry
Drug Evaluation
Preclinical

Pharmacology
Systemic inflammation
Muscle
Smooth
Vascular

Rats
Sprague-Dawley

Contractile Proteins
0302 clinical medicine
Protein Isoforms
Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors
Hypoxia
Carbonic Anhydrases
Acidosis
biology
Cell Differentiation
medicine.anatomical_structure
medicine.symptom
Acetazolamide
medicine.drug
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Hypertension
Pulmonary

Myocytes
Smooth Muscle

Pulmonary Artery
Ammonium Chloride
03 medical and health sciences
Carbonic anhydrase
Macrophages
Alveolar

medicine
Animals
Humans
RNA
Messenger

Molecular Biology
Inflammation
Lung
business.industry
Macrophages
Editorials
Metabolic acidosis
Cell Biology
Hypoxia (medical)
medicine.disease
Pulmonary hypertension
Rats
030104 developmental biology
030228 respiratory system
biology.protein
business
Zdroj: American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology
ISSN: 1535-4989
1044-1549
Popis: Inflammation and vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) phenotypic switching are causally linked to pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) pathogenesis. Carbonic anhydrase inhibition induces mild metabolic acidosis and exerts protective effects in hypoxic pulmonary hypertension. Carbonic anhydrases and metabolic acidosis are further known to modulate immune cell activation. To evaluate if carbonic anhydrase inhibition modulates macrophage activation, inflammation, and VSMC phenotypic switching in severe experimental pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary hypertension was assessed in Sugen 5416/hypoxia (SU/Hx) rats after treatment with acetazolamide or ammonium chloride (NH4Cl). We evaluated pulmonary and systemic inflammation and characterized the effect of carbonic anhydrase inhibition and metabolic acidosis in alveolar macrophages and bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDMs). We further evaluated the treatment effects on VSMC phenotypic switching in pulmonary arteries and pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) and corroborated some of our findings in lungs and pulmonary arteries of patients with PAH. Both patients with idiopathic PAH and SU/Hx rats had increased expression of lung inflammatory markers and signs of PASMC dedifferentiation in pulmonary arteries. Acetazolamide and NH4Cl ameliorated SU/Hx-induced pulmonary hypertension and blunted pulmonary and systemic inflammation. Expression of carbonic anhydrase isoform 2 was increased in alveolar macrophages from SU/Hx animals, classically (M1) and alternatively (M2) activated BMDMs, and lungs of patients with PAH. Carbonic anhydrase inhibition and acidosis had distinct effects on M1 and M2 markers in BMDMs. Inflammatory cytokines drove PASMC dedifferentiation, and this was inhibited by acetazolamide and acidosis. The protective antiinflammatory effect of acetazolamide in pulmonary hypertension is mediated by a dual mechanism of macrophage carbonic anhydrase inhibition and systemic metabolic acidosis.
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