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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-10-18
pubmed:abstractText
Endothelial production of nitric oxide is critical to the regulation of vascular responses, including vascular tone and regional blood flow, leukocyte-endothelial interactions, platelet adhesion and aggregation, and vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation. A relative deficiency in the amount of bioavailable vascular NO results in endothelial dysfunction, with conditions that are conducive to the development of atherosclerosis: thrombosis, inflammation, neointimal proliferation, and vasoconstriction. This review focuses on mouse models of endothelial dysfunction caused by direct genetic modification of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) gene. We first describe the cardiovascular phenotypes of eNOS knockout mice, which are a model of total eNOS gene deficiency and thus the ultimate model of endothelial dysfunction. We then describe S1177A and S1177D eNOS mutant mice as mouse models with altered eNOS phosphorylation and therefore varying degrees of endothelial dysfunction. These include transgenic mice that carry the eNOS S1177A and S1177D transgenes, as well as knockin mice in which the endogenous eNOS gene has been mutated to carry the S1177A and S1177D mutations. Together, eNOS knockout mice and eNOS S1177 mutant mice are useful tools to study the effects of total genetic deficiency of eNOS as well as varying degrees of endothelial dysfunction caused by eNOS S1177 phosphorylation.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1432-2013
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
460
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
965-74
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-1
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Amino Acid Substitution, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Blood Platelets, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Cerebral Infarction, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Cerebrovascular Circulation, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Endothelium, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Heart, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Leukocytes, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Mice, Transgenic, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Mitochondria, Heart, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Muscle, Smooth, Vascular, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Myocardium, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III, pubmed-meshheading:20697735-Regional Blood Flow
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Endothelial nitric oxide synthase transgenic models of endothelial dysfunction.
pubmed:affiliation
Cardiovascular Research Center and Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review