Hypercholesterolemia induces side-specific phenotypic changes and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma pathway activation in swine aortic valve endothelium.
Hypercholesterolemia induces side-specific phenotypic changes and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma pathway activation in swine aortic valve endothelium.
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10.1161/atvbaha.109.198549
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2010-02
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Davies PF
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Guerraty MA;Grant GR;Karanian JW;Chiesa OA;Pritchard WF;Davies PF
The endothelium of normal aortic valves expresses different phenotypes on the aortic and ventricular sides. On the aortic side, which is susceptible to aortic valve sclerosis (AVS), there is a balanced co-expression of both pro-pathological and protective pathways. Side-specific global gene expression can address endothelial phenotype balance in early AVS. Adult male swine were fed a hypercholesterolemic (HC) or an isocaloric normal diet for 2-week and 6-month periods. HC induced localized lipid insudation confined to the aortic side of the leaflet. Transcript profiling of valve endothelial populations showed that the susceptible aortic side was more sensitive to 2-weeks hypercholesterolemia than the ventricular side (1325 vs 87 genes differentially expressed). Greater sensitivity, however, was not evidence of dysfunctional phenotype. Instead, pathway analyses identified differential expression of caspase3-, PPAR&[gamma], TNF&[alpha]-, and NF&[kappa]B-related pathways that were consistent with a protective endothelial phenotype; this was confirmed at the protein level at 2 weeks and persisted at 6 months. In a large animal model at high spatial resolution, endothelium on the patho-susceptible side of the aortic valve leaflet is responsive to hypercholesterolemia. Transcript profiles indicative of a protective phenotype were induced and persisted on the side prone to AVS.