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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-5-18
pubmed:abstractText
Recent investigations indicate that the initial event in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis involves an (auto)immunologic injury to the vessel wall. Heat shock proteins (hsps), which are expressed on the endothelial cell surface, constitute possible autoantigens. After being exposed to shear stress of 30 dyne/cm(2) in vitro by means of a rotational viscometer, human umbilical vein endothelial cells were immunohistochemically stained for hsp 60 by the monoclonal antibody ML-30; static control cells were negative. Maximal hsp 60 induction was observed after 12 hours of hemodynamic stress. In Northern blots, the level of hsp 60 mRNA was markedly increased after only 1 hour of shear stress in human umbilical vein endothelial cells compared with static control cells. In vivo investigations in Lewis rats confirmed these in vitro findings: the intima and media of frozen sections of the right common carotid artery exposed to increased wall shear stress (after ligation of the left common carotid artery) were stained for hsp 60. The vessel wall of the left low-shear-stress-exposed side was negative. These findings demonstrate that shear stress results in hsp 60 induction in endothelial cells in vivo and in vitro, providing the prerequisite for humoral and cellular reactions to endothelial hsp in the earliest stages of atherosclerosis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1079-5642
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
617-23
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Arteriosclerosis, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Autoantigens, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Blood Pressure, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Blotting, Northern, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Carotid Artery, Common, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Cells, Cultured, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Chaperonin 60, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Culture Media, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Endothelium, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Gene Expression, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Ligation, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Perfusion, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-RNA, Messenger, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Rats, Inbred Lew, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Staining and Labeling, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Stress, Mechanical, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Umbilical Veins, pubmed-meshheading:10712382-Viscosity
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Fluid shear stress induces heat shock protein 60 expression in endothelial cells in vitro and in vivo.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute of Biomedical Aging Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria. Boris.Hochleitner@uibk.ac.at
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't