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Effects of long-term serial cell passaging on cell spreading, migration, and cell-surface ultrastructures of cultured vascular endothelial cells. Cytotechnology 2013; 66:229-38. [PMID: 23553018 DOI: 10.1007/s10616-013-9560-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2012] [Accepted: 03/25/2013] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The effects of serial cell passaging on cell spreading, migration, and cell-surface ultrastructures have been less investigated directly. This study evaluated the effects of long-term serial cell passaging (totally 35 passages) on cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells which were pre-stored at -80 °C as usual. Percentage- and spread area-based spreading assays, measurements of fluorescently labeled actin filaments, migration assay, and measurements of cell-surface roughness were performed and quantitatively analyzed by confocal microscopy or atomic force microscopy. We found that the abilities of cell spreading and migration first increased at early passages and then decreased after passage 15, in agreement with the changes in average length of actin filaments. Recovery from cold storage and effects of cell passaging were potentially responsible for the increases and decreases of the values, respectively. In contrast, the average roughness of cell surfaces (particularly the nucleus-surrounding region) first dropped at early passages and then rose after passage 15, which might be caused by cold storage- and cell passaging-induced endothelial microparticles. Our data will provide important information for understanding serial cell passaging and implies that for pre-stored adherent cells at -80 °C cell passages 5-10 are optimal for in vitro studies.
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We have adapted the corn-trypsin inhibitor whole-blood model to include EA.hy926 as an endothelium surrogate to evaluate the vascular modulation of blood coagulation initiated by relipidated recombinant tissue factor (rTf) and a cellular Tf surrogate, lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated THP1 cells (LPS-THP-1). Compared with bare tubes, EA.hy926 with rTf decreased the rate of thrombin formation, ITS accumulation, and the production of fibrinopeptide A. These phenomena occurred with increased rates of factor Va (fVa) inactivation by cleavages at R(506) and R(306). Thus, EA.hy926 provides thrombin-dependent protein C activation and APC fVa inactivation. Comparisons of rTf with LPS-THP-1 showed that the latter gave reduced rates for TAT formation but equivalent fibrinopeptide A, and fV activation/inactivation. In the presence of EA.hy926, the reverse was obtained; with the surrogate endothelium and LPS-THP-1 the rates of TAT generation, fibrinopeptide release, and fV activation were almost doubled, whereas cleavage at R(306) was equivalent. These observations suggest cooperativity between the 2 cell surrogates. These data suggest that the use of these 2 cell lines provides a reproducible quasi-endothelial quasi-inflammatory cytokine-stimulated monocyte system that provides a method to evaluate the variations in blood phenotype against the background of stable inflammatory cell activator and a stable vascular endothelial surrogate.
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Kis B, Abrahám CS, Deli MA, Kobayashi H, Niwa M, Yamashita H, Busija DW, Ueta Y. Adrenomedullin, an autocrine mediator of blood-brain barrier function. Hypertens Res 2003; 26 Suppl:S61-70. [PMID: 12630813 DOI: 10.1291/hypres.26.s61] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Since the discovery that adrenomedullin gene expression is 20- to 40-fold higher in endothelial cells than even in the adrenal medulla, this peptide has been regarded as an important secretory product of the vascular endothelium, together with nitric oxide, eicosanoids, endothelin-1, and other vasoactive metabolites. Cerebral endothelial cells secrete an exceptionally large amount of adrenomedullin, and the adrenomedullin concentration is about 50% higher in the cerebral circulation than in the peripheral vasculature. The adrenomedullin production of cerebral endothelial cells is induced by astrocyte-derived factors. Adrenomedullin causes vasodilation in the cerebral circulation, may participate in the maintenance of the resting cerebral blood flow, and may be protective against ischemic brain injury. Recent data from our laboratory indicate that adrenomedullin, as an endothelium-derived autocrine/paracrine hormone, plays an important role in the regulation of specific blood-brain barrier properties. Adrenomedullin is suggested to be one of the physiological links between astrocyte-derived factors, cyclic adenosine 3'5'-monophosphate (cAMP), and the induction and maintenance of the blood-brain barrier. Moreover, the role of adrenomedullin in the differentiation and proliferation of endothelial cells and in angiogenesis suggests a more complex function for adrenomedullin in the cerebral circulation and in the development of the blood-brain barrier.
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- Béla Kis
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
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Kis B, Abrahám CS, Deli MA, Kobayashi H, Wada A, Niwa M, Yamashita H, Ueta Y. Adrenomedullin in the cerebral circulation. Peptides 2001; 22:1825-34. [PMID: 11754969 DOI: 10.1016/s0196-9781(01)00533-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The central nervous system requires an effective autoregulation of cerebral circulation in order to meet the critical and unusual demands of the brain. In addition, cerebral microvessels has a unique feature, the formation of the blood-brain barrier, which contributes to the stability of the brain parenchymal microenvironment. Many factors are known to be involved in the regulation of cerebral circulation and blood-brain barrier functions. In the last few years a new potential candidate, adrenomedullin, a hypotensive peptide was added to this list. Adrenomedullin has a potent vasodilator effect on the cerebral vasculature, and it may be implicated in the pathologic mechanism of cerebrovascular diseases. In this review, we describe current knowledge about the origin and possible role of adrenomedullin in the regulation of cerebral circulation and blood-brain barrier functions.
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- B Kis
- Department of Physiology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, 807-8555, Kitakyushu, Japan.
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Zhu D, Effros RM, Harder DR, Roman RJ, Jacobs ER. Tissue sources of cytochrome P450 4A and 20-HETE synthesis in rabbit lungs. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 1998; 19:121-8. [PMID: 9651188 DOI: 10.1165/ajrcmb.19.1.3145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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We previously reported that 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE) is an endogenous cytochrome P450 (cP450) 4A metabolite of arachidonic acid (AA) in human lung tissue, and is a potent cyclooxygenase-dependent vasodilator of isolated pulmonary arteries. In the present investigations, we identified sources of cP450 4A immunospecific protein, messenger RNA (mRNA), and 20-HETE synthesis in rabbit lungs. Microsomes of peripheral lung tissue, airways, small and large vessels, and lysates of alveolar macrophages all express proteins of approximately 50 kD which cross-reacted with a primary antibody raised against rat liver cP450 4A1. Peripheral lung tissue, small and large pulmonary arteries, airways, and isolated vascular smooth muscle cells from small pulmonary arteries produced 20-HETE when incubated with AA. Expression of cP450 4A6/4A7 mRNA was readily detectable by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction using isoform-specific probes and 5 microg total RNA extracted from microdissected small pulmonary arteries. These data demonstrate that small pulmonary arteries express cP450 4A proteins and vascular smooth muscle cells derived from these arteries synthesize 20-HETE. Furthermore, cP450 4A appears to be widely distributed in rabbit tissue, raising the possibility that 20-HETE generated from nonvascular tissue could serve as a paracrine factor in the pulmonary circulation.
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- D Zhu
- Department of Physiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, and Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Nakajima M, Hashimoto M, Wang F, Yamanaga K, Nakamura N, Uchida T, Yamanouchi K. Aging decreases the production of PGI2 in rat aortic endothelial cells. Exp Gerontol 1997; 32:685-93. [PMID: 9785094 DOI: 10.1016/s0531-5565(97)00089-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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It has been suggested that progressive pathophysiologic modifications of endothelium are associated with aging. Aging has been shown to influence some specific functions at the cellular level. In the present study, the effects of aging on levels of prostacyclin (PGI2) production were examined in cultured rat aortic endothelial cells from young (six-week-old) and old (100-week-old) Wistar rats. The level of PGI2 production from rat aortic endothelial cells decreased significantly with increasing age, suggesting decreased function of the endothelial cells. The production of PGI2 stimulated by thrombin was decreased in old rat aortic endothelial cells compared to young rat aortic endothelial cells, whereas there was no difference in the rate of intracellular calcium mobilization caused by thrombin. These data indicate that aging nonuniformly affects both basal and agonist-induced levels of PGI2 production in rat aortic endothelial cells, and that this diminution in PGI2 production may be related to the age-related potentiation of various thrombotic events.
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- M Nakajima
- Research Division, Green Cross Corporation, Osaka, Japan
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Schneider M, Ulsenheimer A, Christ M, Wehling M. Nongenomic effects of aldosterone on intracellular calcium in porcine endothelial cells. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1997; 272:E616-20. [PMID: 9142882 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.1997.272.4.e616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Rapid in vitro effects of aldosterone on intracellular electrolytes, cell volume, and the sodium-proton antiport have been described in human mononuclear leukocytes and vascular smooth muscle cells. In the present study, we demonstrate rapid aldosterone effects on free intracellular calcium as determined by fura 2 fluorometry in single porcine endothelial cells. After addition of 100 nmol/l aldosterone, cells respond with a sustained rise in free intracellular calcium by approximately 50% of initial levels within 1-5 min. Elevations are predominantly seen in the subplasmalemmal space. Effective half-maximal concentration values for aldosterone are approximately 1 pmol/l and for cortisol approximately 1 nmol/l. These effects are blunted in calcium-free medium and absent after pretreatment by thapsigargine. They remain unchanged by a >1,000-fold excess of spironolactone. These findings indicate the existence of a nongenomic pathway for aldosterone action in porcine endothelial cells and may be related to known rapid cardiovascular effects of aldosterone in vivo mediated through the baroreceptor reflex.
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- M Schneider
- Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Medizinische Klinik, Klinikum Innenstadt, University of Munich, Germany
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Rosolowsky M, Campbell WB. Synthesis of hydroxyeicosatetraenoic (HETEs) and epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs) by cultured bovine coronary artery endothelial cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1996; 1299:267-77. [PMID: 8555273 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(95)00216-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Endothelial cells release several factors which influence vascular tone, leukocyte function and platelet aggregation. Some of these factors are metabolites of arachidonic acid, most notably prostacyclin. However, many of the endothelial metabolites of arachidonic acid have not been positively identified. The purpose of these studies is to identify the arachidonic acid metabolites synthesized by bovine coronary endothelial cells. Cultured bovine coronary artery endothelial cells were incubated with [14C]arachidonic acid. The incubation media was extracted and the radioactive metabolites resolved by a combination of reverse phase- and normal phase-high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). The cells synthesized 6-keto prostaglandin (PG)F1 alpha, PGE2, 12-hydroxyheptadecatrienoic acid (HHT), 12-, 15-, and 11-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids (HETE), and 14,15-, 11,12-, 8,9-, and 5,6-epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EET). Several of the HETEs were further analyzed by chiral-phase HPLC. The cells synthesized predominately 12(S)-, 15(S)-, and 11(R)-HETE. The synthesis of the S optical isomers of 12- and 15-HETE suggested that the 12- and 15-lipoxygenases were present in these cells. 11(R)-HETE is probably derived from cyclooxygenase. They also synthesized smaller amounts of 9-, 8- and 5-HETEs. The structures of the HETEs and EETs were confirmed by mass spectrometry. The release of 6-keto PGF1 alpha and 15-HETE was measured by specific radioimmunoassays. Melittin, thrombin, arachidonic acid and A23187 stimulated the release of both eicosanoids in a concentration-related matter. Under all conditions, the release of 6-keto PGF1 alpha exceed the release of 15-HETE. Therefore, cultured bovine coronary artery endothelial cells synthesize cyclooxygenase, lipoxygenase and cytochrome P-450 metabolites of arachidonic acid.
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- M Rosolowsky
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas 75235, USA
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Prigent A, Fayard JM, Pageaux JF, Lagarde M, Laugier C, Cohen H. Prostaglandin E2 production by uterine stromal cell line UIII: regulation by estradiol and evidence of an ethanol action. PROSTAGLANDINS 1994; 47:451-66. [PMID: 7938616 DOI: 10.1016/0090-6980(94)90045-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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We have recently established a uterine stromal cell line (UIII). The purpose of the present study was to determine whether these cells have retained the ability to produce and release prostaglandins after several passages and whether this production was regulated. UIII cells, grown in basal conditions, released a very low amount (40.6 +/- 2.9 pg/24h/10(6) cells) of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) though cellular content was more elevated (192 +/- 23 pg/10(6) cells). Ethanol increased the cellular content but decreased the release of PGE2, whereas estradiol 17 beta (E2) increased it in a dose-dependent manner, but had no effect on the cellular content. The PGE2 release by cells grown in medium containing 10 microM arachidonate (AA) reached 1.39 +/- 0.05 ng/24h/10(6) cells, and was further increased to 2.1 +/- 0.1 ng/24 h/10(6) cells by the addition of ethanol. Under the latter condition, E2 was ineffective. This study also showed that UIII cells expressed an immunoreactive pancreatic type 14 kD PLA2. A substantial increased 14 kD PLA2 expression was observed in ethanol-treated cells, suggesting that ethanol-effect on prostaglandin production might be partly mediated by PLA2 increase. Medium supplementation with arachidonate also resulted in a significant increase of intracellular 14 kD PLA2 expression. The present results showed that uterine stromal UIII cells have retained the enzymatic machinery to produce PGE2. Moreover these data demonstrate that ethanol and E2 affect differently uterine PGE2 production.
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- A Prigent
- INSERM U352, INSA-Laboratoire de Physiologie Pharmacodynamie, Villeurbanne, France
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Brown ML, Clark CA, Vaillancourt R, Deykin D. Elevated glucose alters A23187-induced release of arachidonic acid from porcine aortic endothelial cells by enhancing reacylation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1165:239-47. [PMID: 1450219 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(92)90192-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Cultured porcine aortic endothelial cells were conditioned in normal (5.2 mM) and elevated (15.6 mM) glucose, prelabeled with [14C]arachidonic acid and stimulated with ionophore A23187. Elevated glucose cultures released less radiolabeled products and less [14C]arachidonic acid. Analysis of cellular lipids revealed that elevated glucose reduced net loss of radiolabel from diacylphosphatidylethanolamine, did not affect early phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis, and increased net loss from diacylphosphatidylcholine and alkenylacylphosphatidylethanolamine. Uptake of radiolabel upon stimulation was examined to measure the role of reacylation on the diminished net release of radiolabel in elevated glucose cultures. Enhanced acylation of [3H]arachidonic acid into cellular lipids, especially PI, was observed in stimulated and resting cultures with elevated glucose. Further, pretreatment of the cultures with an acyltransferase inhibitor, thimerosal, prior to A23187 stimulation in radiolabeled cultures, abolished the effects of glucose on eicosanoid and arachidonic acid release. Differences in the ionophore-induced net loss of radiolabel from diacylphosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylinositol of the two glucose treatments were diminished by thimerosal exposure, while net loss of radiolabel from diacylphosphatidylcholine and alkenylacylphosphatidylethanolamine were unaffected. The data indicate that elevated glucose alters deacylation and enhances reacylation of arachidonic acid into endothelial cells and particularly into phosphatidylinositol. Enhanced reacylation may explain some of the altered lipid pathways that have been observed in experiments that elevate glucose concentrations or involve diabetes.
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- M L Brown
- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
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Blank ML, Smith ZL, Snyder F. Contributing factors in the trafficking of [3H]arachidonate between phospholipids. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1124:262-72. [PMID: 1576167 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(92)90138-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Cultured human promyelocytic leukemia cells (HL-60), depleted of arachidonic acid by continued growth in serum-free media, were used as a model system to examine various factors that control the incorporation and distribution of [3H]arachidonic acid into classes and subclasses of cellular lipids. Increasing the culture media concentration of [3H]arachidonic acid from 1 x 10(-8) M to 1 x 10(-5) M caused a greater percentage of the cellular tritium to be distributed into triacylglycerols (from less than 1% at 1 x 10(-8) M to 38% at 1 x 10(-5) M) with a corresponding decrease in cellular [3H]diradylglycerophosphoethanolamine (from 53% at 1 x 10(-8) M to 12% at 1 x 10(-5) M) during 2 h incubations. A greater proportion of the tritium present in diradylglycerophosphoethanolamine and diradylglycerophosphocholine, at the higher media concentration of [3H]arachidonic acid (1 x 10(-5) M), was found in the diacyl subclasses of these two lipids than was observed at the lower concentrations (less than 1 x 10(-6) M) of [3H]arachidonic acid. Significant amounts of diarachidonoyl molecular species were found in the phosphatidylethanolamine (10%) and phosphatidylcholine (15%) of HL-60 cells that were labeled for 2 h with 1 x 10(-5) M [3H]arachidonic acid. This was the only molecular species of phosphatidylcholine to completely disappear when prelabeled cells were placed in arachidonate-free media for 22 h. Prelabeling-chase experiments with 1 x 10(-5) M [3H]arachidonic acid were consistent with movement of [3H]arachidonate from triacylglycerols into diradylglycerophosphatides and from diacylphospholipids into ether-linked phospholipids. Increasing the concentration of HL-60 cells in the incubations influenced the distribution of [3H]arachidonic acid in cellular lipid classes in a manner analogous to decreasing the concentration of [3H]arachidonic acid in the media. Increasing the endogenous level of cellular arachidonate in phospholipid classes with supplements of unlabeled arachidonic acid changed the subsequent lipid class distribution of a low concentration (1 x 10(-8) M) of [3H]arachidonic acid to resemble results obtained with a much higher mass level of [3H]arachidonate in arachidonate depleted cells. HL-60 cells differentiated into granulocytes by treatment with dimethyl sulfoxide incorporated less [3H]arachidonic acid but had a greater proportion associated with alkylacylglycerophosphocholine and alk-1-enylacylglycerophosphoethanolamine than undifferentiated HL-60 cells.
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- M L Blank
- Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Medical Sciences Division, TN
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Kawamura K, Smith TL, Zhou Q, Kummerow FA. Neuropeptide Y stimulates prostacyclin production in porcine vascular endothelial cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1991; 179:309-13. [PMID: 1883360 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(91)91370-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We investigated the effects of neuropeptide Y on the prostacyclin production of cultured porcine aortic endothelial cells by measuring the stable metabolite of prostacyclin, 6-keto-prostaglandin F1 alpha, by radioimmunoassay. Neuropeptide Y induced dose- and time-dependent stimulation of prostacyclin production by cultured porcine aortic endothelial cells. The lowest stimulatory concentration of neuropeptide Y was 10(-8) M and maximal response, a 2.8 fold rise, was obtained with 10(-6) M. The stimulation lasted at least 24 h. The effect was associated with the stimulation of arachidonic acid release. Our data suggest that neuropeptide Y may inhibit the development of atherosclerosis by stimulating prostacyclin synthesis.
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- K Kawamura
- Burnsides Research Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana 61801
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