(Circulation. 2001;103:993.)
© 2001 American Heart Association, Inc.
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From the Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (Y.F., P.L., E.R., C.C.H., M.A.); and the Biosafety Research Center, Foods, Drugs, and Pesticides, Shizuoka (M.E., Y.H.), and the Institute of Experimental Animals, Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe (M.S.), Japan.
Correspondence to Masanori Aikawa, MD, PhD, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 221 Longwood Ave, LMRC 307, Boston, MA 02115. E-mail maikawa{at}rics.bwh.harvard.edu
BackgroundAcute coronary syndromes often result from rupture of vulnerable plaques. The collagen content of plaques probably regulates their stability. This study tested whether HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) alter interstitial collagen gene expression or matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) levels in rabbit atheroma.
Methods and ResultsWe administered equihypocholesterolemic doses of pravastatin (a hydrophilic statin, 50 mg · kg-1 · d-1, n=9), fluvastatin (a cell-permeant lipophilic statin, 20 mg · kg-1 · d-1, n=10), or placebo (n=10) to mature Watanabe heritable hyperlipidemic rabbits for 52 weeks. The fluvastatin group achieved a much higher peak plasma concentration (23.7 µmol/L) than did the pravastatin group (1.3 µmol/L) under these conditions. Immunohistochemistry revealed that MMP-1, MMP-3, and MMP-9 expression by macrophages in the intima was lower in both the pravastatin and fluvastatin groups than in the placebo group, whereas there was no difference in macrophage numbers. Numbers of intimal smooth muscle cells (SMCs) (identified by immunohistochemistry) and expression of type I procollagen mRNA (detected by in situ hybridization), however, were significantly higher in the pravastatin group than in the fluvastatin group. Treatment with pravastatin, but not fluvastatin, preserved interstitial collagen content in vivo (detected by picrosirius red polarization). In vitro, fluvastatin, but not pravastatin, decreased numbers of rabbit and human aortic SMCs without altering procollagen I mRNA expression.
ConclusionsThis study showed that statins can reduce MMP expression in atheroma and that cell-permeant statins can decrease SMC number and collagen gene expression in vivo.
Key Words: collagen muscle, smooth atherosclerosis
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