在慢性阻塞性肺病模型中,肺淋巴内皮细胞经历炎症和前血栓变化
Anjali Trivedi1, Tyler M Lu2,3,4, Barbara Summers1
1Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States.
Frontiers in cell and developmental biology
|March 5, 2024
概括
在慢性阻塞性肺病 (COPD) 中,香烟烟雾和血栓暴露会导致淋巴内皮细胞 (LEC) 的炎症变化. 这些LEC变化可能导致COPD患者的淋巴功能障碍和肺损伤.
科学领域:
- 肺部医学 肺部医学
- 血管生物学 血管生物学
- 免疫学 免疫学 免疫学
背景情况:
- 淋巴血管系统对于肺部恒温和损伤反应至关重要.
- 淋巴功能障碍,以血栓和纤维素凝块为标志,是慢性阻塞性肺病 (COPD) 的早期特征,与香烟烟雾 (CS) 有关.
- 在COPD病变发生过程中,CS和血栓素对淋巴内皮细胞 (LEC) 的直接影响尚不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 调查CS和血栓对人类肺部微血管LEC的影响.
- 为了确定CS暴露是否会在LEC中诱导类似的内皮功能障碍,就像在COPD中观察到的血液血管系统一样.
- 在小鼠模型和人类COPD样本中分析LECs的炎症和前血栓变化.
主要方法:
- 人类肺部微血管LEC的体外细胞培养,用香烟烟雾提取物 (CSE) 和/或血栓治疗.
- 来自暴露于CS的小鼠的肺LECs的RNA测序.
- 分析单细胞RNA测序数据和COPD患者肺组织的免疫组织化学染色.
主要成果:
- CSE治疗降低了LEC中的纤维解活性,增加了等离子体激活剂抑制剂1 (PAI-1) 的表达.
- 结合CSE和血栓治疗降低了组织因子通路抑制剂 (TFPI) 表达,并增加了LEC中的粘附分子.
- 在小鼠LEC中,CS暴露上调了原血栓和炎症途径;人类COPD患者的LEC显示炎症标志物增加.
结论:
- 淋巴内皮经历炎症性变化由于CS暴露和COPD中的血栓,反映了血管的变化.
- 这些LEC的炎症变化可能会损害淋巴功能,并导致COPD的组织损伤.
- 需要进一步的研究来阐明将这些LEC变化与COPD进展联系在一起的确切机制.
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