LOCAL-DELIVERY OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH-FACTOR ACCELERATES REENDOTHELIALIZATION AND ATTENUATES INTIMAL HYPERPLASIA IN BALLOON-INJURED RAT CAROTID-ARTERY
LOCAL-DELIVERY OF VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH-FACTOR ACCELERATES REENDOTHELIALIZATION AND ATTENUATES INTIMAL HYPERPLASIA IN BALLOON-INJURED RAT CAROTID-ARTERY
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DOI:
10.1161/01.cir.91.11.2793
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发表时间:
1995-06-01
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影响因子:
37.8
通讯作者:
ISNER, JM
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作者:
ASAHARA, T;BAUTERS, C;ISNER, JM
Background Most strategies designed to reduce restenosis by the use of pharmacological or biological reagents involve direct inhibition of vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation. Alternatively, SMC proliferation might be indirectly inhibited if reendothelialization could be specifically facilitated at sites of balloon-induced arterial injury. Accordingly, we investigated the hypothesis that application of an endothelial cell (EC)-specific mitogen to a freshly denuded intimal surface could accelerate reendothelialization and thereby attenuate intimal hyperplasia.Methods and Results The left carotid artery of 31 Sprague-Dawley rats was subjected to balloon injury, after which 16 rats were treated with a 30-minute incubation with 100 mu g of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), an EC-specific mitogen. Control animals (n=15) received a 30-minute incubation with 0.9% saline. At 2 weeks after balloon injury, carotid artery reendothelialization was markedly superior in the VEGF-treated group compared with the control group (14.59+/-1.12 versus 7.96+/-0.51 mm(2), P