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Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibition Abolishes Medial Smooth Muscle PDGF-AB Biosynthesis and Attenuates Cell Proliferation in Injured Carotid Arteries
Relationships to Neointima Formation
From the Cell Biology Laboratory, Baker Medical Research Institute and Alfred Hospital, Commercial Rd, Prahran 3181, Victoria, Australia.
Correspondence to Dr Alex Bobik, Cell Biology Laboratory, Baker Medical Research Institute, PO Box 348, Prahran, Victoria 3181, Australia. E-mail alex.bobik{at}alice.baker.edu.au
Background ACE inhibitors can attenuate the development of intimal fibrocellular lesions after balloon catheter vessel injury, but the mechanisms responsible are unknown.
Methods and Results To evaluate how basic fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) and the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) isoforms are affected by ACE inhibition in injured rat carotid arteries in relation to smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation, we examined the effects of oral perindopril on FGF-2 and PDGF isoform levels in carotid arteries 2 days after balloon catheter injury. [3H]Thymidine incorporation into medial and intimal SMCs was also assessed. Uninjured vessels contained two forms of FGF-2, with molecular weights of 18 and 22 kD, and PDGF-AA. Two days after injury, FGF-2 and PDGF-AA levels were markedly reduced, but high levels of PDGF-AB became apparent when the SMCs were proliferating. Perindopril completely abolished the biosynthesis of PDGF-AB but had little effect on residual FGF-2. This was accompanied by a 25% reduction in medial SMC proliferation. Neointimal cell proliferation 10 days after injury was unaffected by perindopril, although neointima size was reduced by 30%. Commencing perindopril treatment 4 days after the injury confirmed that early events associated with effects on medial SMCs were the major contributors to the attenuated neointimal lesions.
Conclusions The ability of ACE inhibitors such as perindopril to attenuate neointima formation and growth in balloon catheter–injured rat carotid arteries is dependent on early events in the media, the inhibition of SMC PDGF-AB biosynthesis and attenuation of proliferation. Neointima formation in similarly injured vessels containing SMCs that are either unresponsive to PDGF-AB or exhibit an ACE-independent profile of growth factor biosynthesis responses may account for the ineffectiveness of ACE inhibition in some species.
Key Words: ACE inhibition • angioplasty • muscle, smooth • growth substances
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