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1Biomolecular Transport Dynamics Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania; and 2Department of Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, New York
Submitted 23 May 2003 ; accepted in final form 3 December 2004
Vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC) migration is a hallmark of intimal hyperplasia (IH), the progression of which is affected by hemodynamic conditions at the diseased site. The realization that SMCs are exposed to blood flow in both denuded vessels (direct blood flow) and intact vessels (interstitial blood flow) motivated this study of the effects of fluid flow shear stress (SS) on SMC migration. Rat aortic SMCs were seeded onto Matrigel-coated cell culture inserts, and their migratory activity toward PDGF-BB when exposed to SS in a rotating disk apparatus was quantified. Four hours of either 10 or 20 dyn/cm2 SS significantly inhibited SMC migration to the bottom side of the insert. This inhibition was associated with downregulation of SMC matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 activation. Four hours of 10 dyn/cm2 SS also drastically increased SMC production of NO. A NO synthase inhibitor (NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester; 100 µM) abolished the shear-induced increase in SMC NO production as well as the inhibition of migration and MMP-2 activity. A NO donor (S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine; 500 µM) suppressed SMC migration via the reduction of both total and active MMP-2 levels. Addition of 10 µM MMP-2 inhibitor I to inserts significantly reduced SMC migration. Western blots showed no effect of 4 h of 20 dyn/cm2 SS on SMC production of PDGF-AA, another chemical known to suppress SMC migration. Thus it appears that SS acts to suppress SMC migration by upregulating the cellular production of NO, which in turn inhibits MMP-2 activity.
vascular smooth muscle; intimal hyperplasia; interstitial flow
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