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Submitted on March 21, 2002
Revised on May 9, 2002
Accepted on May 9, 2002

Age-Dependent Spontaneous Coronary Arterial Thrombosis in Transgenic Mice That Express a Stable Form of Human Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1

Mesut Eren PhD, Corrie A. Painter BS, James B. Atkinson MD, PhD, Paul J. Declerck PhD, and Douglas E. Vaughan MD*

From the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (M.E., C.A.P., D.E.V.) and Department of Pathology (J.B.A.), Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tenn, and Laboratory for Pharmaceutical Biology (P.J.D.), Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: doug.vaughan{at}mcmail.vanderbilt.edu.

Background—Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) regulates fibrinolysis and has been reported to be an independent risk factor for ischemic cardiovascular events. This study describes the age-dependent development of spontaneous coronary arterial thrombi that are associated with evidence of subendocardial myocardial infarction in mice transgenic for human PAI-1.

Methods and Results—We generated two independent transgenic mice founder lines that express a stable variant of active human PAI-1 under control of the murine preproendothelin-1 (mPPET-1) promoter. Backcrossed homozygous transgenic animals from founder line I had plasma PAI-1 levels of 23±12 ng/mL. PAI-1 transgenic animals younger than 4 months do not exhibit any evidence of arterial or venous thrombosis. Ninety percent of transgenic animals (n=10) older than 6 months developed spontaneous occlusions of typically multiple, penetrating coronary arteries, with histological evidence of subendocardial infarction identified in 50% of animals.

Conclusions—This study shows that chronically elevated levels of PAI-1 are associated with age-dependent coronary arterial thrombosis in mice transgenic for human PAI-1. This is the first study of a murine model of coronary thrombosis that occurs in the absence of severe hypercholesterolemia or multiple genetic manipulations. These findings provide new evidence to support the hypothesis that PAI-1 excess contributes to the development of coronary arterial thrombosis.


Key words: thrombus • coronary disease • myocardial infarction • plasminogen activators • fibrinolysis




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