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[The study about expression of Gli2 in vein grafts]
Feng-he Li1, Shi-jie Xin, Dong Yang
1Department of Vascular Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang 110001, China.
Objective:
To study the expression of cell cycle related factor Gli2 in autogenous vein graft and its relation with neointima formation.
Method:
Autogenous vein graft model were established in 36 male wistar rats of 8 weeks old, 140 g, by transplanting the left jugular vein to intra renal abdominal aorta with microsurgical technique. Graft veins were harvest at 14, 28 days after transplantation. The IF and W-B were used to detect the protein expression in the vein graft. At the same time Gli2- mRNA was measured by RT-PCR.
Results:
Immunofluorescent staining showed that the Gli2+ cells was only 3.2% ± 0.4% in the normal vein, but was much more in the vein graft after surgery, was 41.3% ± 0.6%, 58.3 ± 0.6% respectively; The expression of Gli2 and PCNA were both elevated in the vein graft. There is a positive correlation between them which indicated by W-B, the relation index was 0.826; the Gli2 mRNA content was also increased in vein graft, was 8.9, 13.6 fold compared with normal vein as 1 respectively.
Conclusion:
Gli2 is upregulated in autogenous vein grafts and may correlated with the proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells.
