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A Method for Labeling Vasculature in Embryonic Mice
Published on: October 7, 2011
自克林VEGF信号传递是血管平衡所需的
Sunyoung Lee1, Tom T Chen, Chad L Barber
1Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and Molecular Biology Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Cell
|August 28, 2007
概括
自克林血管内皮生长因子 (VEGF) 对于维持成年人血管健康至关重要. 它的缺失导致内皮退化,突出显示了细胞自主通路,这对于血管平衡至关重要.
科学领域:
- 心血管生物学 心血管生物学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 内皮细胞生物学 内皮细胞生物学
背景情况:
- 血管内皮生长因子 (VEGF) 以其在血管生成中的作用而闻名,无论是在发育过程中还是在病理条件下.
- 维格蛋白在维持成年人正常血管功能中的确切作用还不太清楚.
研究的目的:
- 研究成年生物体内血管恒温的自身隐性VEGF信号的必要性.
- 为了确定膜VEGF是否可以补偿内皮特异性VEGF的损失.
- 阐明细胞内皮细胞中细胞自主VEGF信号传递的机制.
主要方法:
- 对vegf基因的遗传删除,特别是在成年小鼠的内皮细胞中.
- 对内皮细胞退化,生存率和血管完整性的分析.
- 测量VEGF mRNA和蛋白质水平.
- 在各种条件下 (外源VEGF,小分子抗剂,细胞外VEGF阻塞) 评估内皮细胞中的VEGFR2酸化.
主要成果:
- 内皮细胞的遗传删除导致了55%的突变小鼠的逐渐内皮退化和过早死亡.
- 观察到的表型发生在VEGF总mRNA或蛋白质水平没有显著变化的情况下,这表明膜补偿不足.
- 野生类型的内皮细胞在没有外源VEGF的情况下表现出VEGFR2酸化,这表明了自身隐性信号循环.
- 这种自激活被小分子VEGFR2抗剂抑制,但不是通过阻断细胞外VEGF.
结论:
- 自克林VEGF信号传递对于维持成年人血管血管血管恒温至关重要.
- 内皮细胞拥有细胞自主VEGF信号通路,这对它们的生存和功能至关重要.
- 这种内在的途径与正规的副膜血管生成级联有所区别,并且不能被它取代.
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