Abstract
OBJECTIVE: The progression of diabetes is associated with profound endothelial dysfunction. We tested the hypothesis that cellular stress would be detectable in ECs retrieved from arterial and venous vessels of diabetic mice.
METHOD: We describe a method for direct isolation of well-characterised aortic and venous ECs from mice in which cells are not subjected to propagation in culture.
RESULTS: Gene expression profiling, confirmed by real-time PCR, revealed a progressive increase in markers of injury within two main gene families, EC activation and EC apoptosis, in aortic and venous ECs recovered from diabetic versus non-diabetic mice. In short-term diabetes, Il1b mRNA transcripts were higher in aortic and venous ECs of diabetic mice versus controls. In long-term diabetes, casp-1 mRNA transcripts were higher in aortic and venous ECs of diabetic mice versus controls.
CONCLUSION: These data suggest that diabetes imparts diffuse endothelial perturbation in the arterial and venous endothelium.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 249-61 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2009 |
Keywords
- Animals
- Aorta/immunology
- Apoptosis
- Caspase 1/genetics
- Cell Separation
- Cells, Cultured
- Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental/genetics
- Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1/genetics
- Endothelial Cells/immunology
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Inflammation/genetics
- Inflammation Mediators/metabolism
- Interleukin-1beta/genetics
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Phenotype
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Stress, Physiological/genetics
- Time Factors
- Vena Cava, Inferior/immunology