Vascular heme oxygenase-1 induction suppresses microvascular thrombus formation in vivo
Vascular heme oxygenase-1 induction suppresses microvascular thrombus formation in vivo
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DOI:
10.1161/01.atv.0000118279.74056.8a
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发表时间:
2004-03-01
影响因子:
8.7
通讯作者:
Vollmar, B
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作者:
Lindenblatt, N;Bordel, R;Vollmar, B
Objective - By heme degradation, heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) provides endogenous carbon monoxide and bilirubin, both of which play major roles in vascular biology. The current study aimed to examine whether induction of HO-1 and its byproducts modulate the process of microvascular thrombus formation in vivo.Methods and Results - In individual microvessels of mouse cremaster muscle preparations, ferric chloride-induced thrombus formation was analyzed using intravital fluorescence microscopy. When mice were pretreated with an intraperitoneal injection of hemin, a HO-1 inducer, immunohistochemistry and Western blot protein analysis of cremaster muscle tissue displayed a marked induction of HO-1. In these animals, superfusion with ferric chloride solution induced arteriolar and venular thrombus formation, which, however, was significantly delayed when compared with thrombus formation in animals without HO-1 induction. The delay in thrombus formation in hemin-treated mice was completely blunted by tin protoporphyrin-IX, a HO-1 inhibitor, but not by copper protoporphyrin- IX, which does not inhibit the enzyme. Coadministration of the vitamin E analogue Trolox in HO-1 - blocked animals almost completely restored the delay in thrombus formation, implying that, besides CO, the antioxidant HOpathway metabolite bilirubin mainly contributes to the antithrombotic property of HO-1. This was further supported by the fact that bilirubin was found as effective as hemin in delay of ferric chloride-induced thrombus formation. Animals with HO-1 induction revealed reduced P-selectin protein expression in cremaster muscle tissue, which most probably presented the molecular basis for delayed thrombus growth.Conclusion - Local induction of HO-1 activity may be of preventive and therapeutic value for clinical disorders with increased risk of thrombotic events.