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3621492

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-9-29
pubmed:abstractText
Smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation in injured arteries is inhibited by heparin, but the mechanism of inhibition is unknown. In particular, it is not clear whether heparin prevents exit of quiescent SMC from the resting state, inhibits progression through the prereplicative (G1) sequence, or acts during DNA synthesis itself. In this study, induction of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity was used as a marker of SMC entry into the cell cycle in an attempt to localize the site of heparin action during the initial hours after rat carotid injury. Rapid and transient induction of ODC activity was observed that reached a maximum (twenty-three-fold) 6 hours after wounding. Heparin failed to prevent ODC induction but greatly reduced frequencies of [3H]thymidine-labelled SMC nuclei 33 hours after injury. Moreover, heparin infusion could be delayed for up to 18 hours after the injury event with no significant loss of antiproliferative effect. Further delays resulted in marked loss of growth inhibition. The results of these studies show that SMC rapidly and synchronously leave the resting state after injury and suggest that heparin acts late in the prereplicative (G1) sequence or early in S phase to inhibit SMC proliferation in damaged arteries.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0009-7330
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
61
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
296-300
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Heparin regulates smooth muscle S phase entry in the injured rat carotid artery.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.