内皮機能:動脈硬化症における重要な決定因子?
Ulf Landmesser1, Burkhard Hornig, Helmut Drexler
1Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Abteilung Kardiologie und Angiologie, Carl Neuberg Str.1, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
Circulation
|June 3, 2004
まとめ
高コレステロールや糖尿病などの疾患に関連した内皮機能障害は,血管機能を損なう. この機能障害の評価は,心血管疾患のリスクの高い患者を特定するのに役立ちます.
科学分野:
- 心血管医学 心血管医学
- 血管生物学 血管生物学
- バイオケミストリー バイオケミストリー
背景:
- 高コレステロール血症,高血圧,糖尿病,喫煙などの動脈硬化症のリスク要因は,内皮機能不全と関連しています.
- 内皮機能は,しばしば内皮に依存した血管運動によって評価され,血管拡張障害がより広範な内皮機能不全を反映していると仮定します.
- 内皮に由来する酸化窒素 (NO) は,血管拡張,抗炎症,抗血栓症において重要な役割を果たし,白血球と血小板の粘着とPAI-1発現を阻害する.
研究 の 目的:
- 内皮に依存した血管運動障害の予後的な影響を調査する.
- 内皮機能不全における反応性酸素種とC反応性タンパク質を含む炎症の役割を調査する.
- 内皮機能の評価によって,高リスクの患者を臨床的に特定できるかどうかを判断する.
主な方法:
- 内皮機能不全のメカニズムと評価に関する既存の文献のレビュー.
- 内皮機能不全と心血管疾患の危険因子と予測を結びつける研究の分析.
- 活性酸素種と内皮機能不全における炎症経路に関する新興研究の検討.
主要な成果:
- 内皮に依存した血管運動の障害は,有意で独立した予後的な影響を及ぼします.
- 反応性酸素種の血管産生の増加は,内皮機能不全の根底にある一般的なメカニズムです.
- 炎症とC反応性タンパク質は,内皮機能不全に直接寄与する可能性があります.
結論:
- 内皮機能の評価は,臨床リスクの階層化の可能性を秘めている.
- 反応性酸素種調節のようなメカニズムの理解は,新しい治療戦略をもたらす可能性があります.
- 内皮機能不全を標的とした治療は,心血管疾患における患者の予後を改善する可能性がある.
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