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对VEGF作为皮细胞功能和血管成熟的负调节者的作用
Joshua I Greenberg1, David J Shields, Samuel G Barillas
1Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Moore's UCSD Cancer Center, USA.
Nature
|November 11, 2008
概括
血管内皮生长因子 (VEGF) 促进血管生长,但抑制血管覆盖,导致血管不稳定. 抑制VEGF受体2可以恢复血管的稳定性和成熟,特别是在瘤中.
科学领域:
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 细胞生物学 细胞生物学
- 血管生物学 血管生物学
背景情况:
- 血管新生需要内皮细胞的增殖和周细胞的稳定.
- 血管内皮生长因子 (VEGF) 和血小板衍生生长因子 (PDGF) 协调血管生成.
- VEGF刺激内皮细胞,而其在细胞周功能中的作用却不太清楚.
研究的目的:
- 研究VEGF在细胞周围细胞生物学中的作用及其对新血管化的影响.
- 阐明VEGF影响血管光滑肌细胞 (VSMC) 功能的分子机制.
- 为了确定向VEGF信号是否可以改善容器成熟.
主要方法:
- 在体外研究了VEGF和PDGF对内皮细胞和VSMC的影响.
- 研究了VEGF受体2 (VEGF-R2) 和PDGF受体β (PDGF-Rbeta) 之间的受体复合物的形成.
- 利用瘤细胞VEGF的遗传删除来评估其对瘤血管生成的体内影响.
主要成果:
- VEGF通过破坏VSMC功能和消除细胞周围细胞覆盖来抑制新血管化.
- 通过一种新的PDGF-Rbeta/VEGF-R2复合体,VEGF-R2激活抑制了VSMC中的PDGF-Rbeta信号传递.
- 抑制VEGF-R2恢复了血管生成和血管成熟,而瘤细胞的VEGF删除改善了血管成熟.
结论:
- VEGF具有二分的作用:促进内皮细胞功能,但抑制VSMC和血管成熟.
- PDGF-Rbeta/VEGF-R2复合体是VEGF对VSMCs抑制作用的关键调解者.
- 针对VEGF-R2信号提供了一种治疗策略,以增强血管的稳定性和成熟,特别是在癌症中.
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