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Chinese Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics ›› 2007, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (9): 1013-1017.

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Effects of HECCM and DDPH on the expression of osteopontin gene and α-SM-actin in PASMC

DU Bing1, CHEN Pei-pei2, WANG Xi-ming2, DUAN Qiu-hong2, HE Shan-shu2   

  1. 1Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical College, Wenzhou 32500, Zhejiang, China;
    2Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tongji Medical College, HuazhongUniversity of Science and Techology, Wuhan 430030, Hubei, China
  • Received:2007-07-03 Revised:2007-09-04 Online:2007-09-26 Published:2020-10-30

Abstract: AIM: To study the effects of hypoxial endothelia cell conditional medium(HECCM) and DDPH on the expression of osteopontin(OPN) gene and α-SM-actin in pulmonary arterial muscle cell (PASMC), and the reverse effect of DDPH on proliferating PASMC induced by HECCM.METHODS: Hypoxial endothelia cell model was established in PASMC of swine.MTT assay and Immunocytochemistry was used to test cell proliferation, the expression of α-SM-actin.Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction(RT-PCR) was used to detect the expression of OPN gene.RESULTS: (1) HECCM decrease the level of α-SM-actin and up-regulate the expression of OPN gene in PASMC;(2) DDPH increase the level of α-SM-actin and down-regulate the expression of OPN gene in PASMC.CONCLUSION: DDPH could reverse the phenotype transformation of PASMC exposed to HECCM, and transform PASMC from synthetic phenotype to normal contractile phenotype.

Key words: DDPH, α-smooth muscle-actin, hypoxia, osteopontin, pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cell

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