慢性大動脈吐における心筋線維症:体積過負荷に対する分子および細胞の反応
Jeffrey S Borer1, Sharada Truter, Edmund M Herrold
1Division of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, the Howard Gilman Institute for Valvular Heart Diseases, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY, USA. memontal@med.cornell.edu
Circulation
|April 17, 2002
まとめ
大動脈リグルジテーション (AR) の場合,心臓の線維芽細胞は異常な細胞外マトリックス (ECM) を生成し,特にフィブロネクチンはコラーゲンではなくフィブロネクチンです. この反応は主に機械的ストレスによるもので,心不全の原因となる.
科学分野:
- 心血管生物学 心血管生物学
- バイオケミストリー バイオケミストリー
- 細胞外マトリックス研究
背景:
- 心筋線維症 (Myocardial fibrosis) は,慢性大動脈吐症 (AR) の患者における一般的な合併症である.
- 繊維症における非コラーゲン細胞外マトリックス (ECM) 要素の不均衡は,ARにおける心不全に先行し,それに寄与する.
研究 の 目的:
- 慢性大動脈吐 (AR) で観察されるECM組成の変化における心臓線維芽細胞 (CF) の役割を調査する.
- ARに関連した機械的なストレスがCFのこれらの変化の主な原動力であるかどうかを判断する.
主な方法:
- 手術で誘発された慢性ARのウサギからのCFのECMに [3H]-グルコサミンと [3H]-プロリンを組み込むことを評価しました.
- 心臓線維芽細胞の遺伝子発現と特定のECMタンパク質合成を分析した.
- 主要な応答を評価するために,AR条件を模倣する機械的ストレスの正常なCFを暴露した.
主要な成果:
- ARウサギからのCFは,対照群と比較して,グルコサミンの組み込みが増加し,フィブロネクチン遺伝子発現と合成が向上した.
- プロリン組み込みとコラーゲン合成 (タイプIとIII) は,AR CF.では変化しませんでした.
- 機械的ストレスの影響を受けた正常なCFでは,グルコサミンの組み込みが増加し,フィブロネクチンが上位に調節され,ARの発見を反映した.
結論:
- ARの心臓線維芽細胞は,コラーゲン合成の最小限の変化で,異常なECM比率,特にフィブロネクチンを生成します.
- ARによる機械的ストレスは,少なくとも部分的には,これらの変異したCF応答の主要な原因です.
- これらのフィブロネクチン変化とARにおける心不全の病原性を関連付けるため,さらなる研究が必要である.
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