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Expression of Thrombospondin-1 Modulates the Angioinflammatory Phenotype of Choroidal Endothelial Cells
The choroidal circulation plays a central role in maintaining the health of outer retina and photoreceptor function. Alterations in this circulation contribute to pathogenesis of many eye diseases including exudative age-related macular degeneration. Unfortunately, very little is known about the cho...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4280221/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25548916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116423 |
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author | Fei, Ping Zaitoun, Ismail Farnoodian, Mitra Fisk, Debra L. Wang, Shoujian Sorenson, Christine M. Sheibani, Nader |
author_facet | Fei, Ping Zaitoun, Ismail Farnoodian, Mitra Fisk, Debra L. Wang, Shoujian Sorenson, Christine M. Sheibani, Nader |
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description | The choroidal circulation plays a central role in maintaining the health of outer retina and photoreceptor function. Alterations in this circulation contribute to pathogenesis of many eye diseases including exudative age-related macular degeneration. Unfortunately, very little is known about the choroidal circulation and its molecular and cellular regulation. This has been further hampered by the lack of methods for routine culturing of choroidal endothelial cells (ChEC), especially from wild type and transgenic mice. Here we describe a method for isolation and culturing of mouse ChEC. We show that expression of thrombospondin-1 (TSP1), an endogenous inhibitor of angiogenesis and inflammation, has a significant impact on phenotype of ChEC. ChEC from TSP1-deficient (TSP1−/−) mice were less proliferative and more apoptotic, less migratory and less adherent, and failed to undergo capillary morphogenesis in Matrigel. However, re-expression of TSP1 was sufficient to restore TSP1−/− ChEC migration and capillary morphogenesis. TSP1−/− ChEC expressed increased levels of TSP2, phosphorylated endothelial nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and inducible NOS (iNOS), a marker of inflammation, which was associated with significantly higher level of NO and oxidative stress in these cells. Wild type and TSP1−/− ChEC produced similar levels of VEGF, although TSP1−/− ChEC exhibited increased levels of VEGF-R1 and pSTAT3. Other signaling pathways including Src, Akt, and MAPKs were not dramatically affected by the lack of TSP1. Together our results demonstrate an important autocrine role for TSP1 in regulation of ChEC phenotype. |
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spelling | pubmed-42802212015-01-07 Expression of Thrombospondin-1 Modulates the Angioinflammatory Phenotype of Choroidal Endothelial Cells Fei, Ping Zaitoun, Ismail Farnoodian, Mitra Fisk, Debra L. Wang, Shoujian Sorenson, Christine M. Sheibani, Nader PLoS One Research Article The choroidal circulation plays a central role in maintaining the health of outer retina and photoreceptor function. Alterations in this circulation contribute to pathogenesis of many eye diseases including exudative age-related macular degeneration. Unfortunately, very little is known about the choroidal circulation and its molecular and cellular regulation. This has been further hampered by the lack of methods for routine culturing of choroidal endothelial cells (ChEC), especially from wild type and transgenic mice. Here we describe a method for isolation and culturing of mouse ChEC. We show that expression of thrombospondin-1 (TSP1), an endogenous inhibitor of angiogenesis and inflammation, has a significant impact on phenotype of ChEC. ChEC from TSP1-deficient (TSP1−/−) mice were less proliferative and more apoptotic, less migratory and less adherent, and failed to undergo capillary morphogenesis in Matrigel. However, re-expression of TSP1 was sufficient to restore TSP1−/− ChEC migration and capillary morphogenesis. TSP1−/− ChEC expressed increased levels of TSP2, phosphorylated endothelial nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and inducible NOS (iNOS), a marker of inflammation, which was associated with significantly higher level of NO and oxidative stress in these cells. Wild type and TSP1−/− ChEC produced similar levels of VEGF, although TSP1−/− ChEC exhibited increased levels of VEGF-R1 and pSTAT3. Other signaling pathways including Src, Akt, and MAPKs were not dramatically affected by the lack of TSP1. Together our results demonstrate an important autocrine role for TSP1 in regulation of ChEC phenotype. Public Library of Science 2014-12-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4280221/ /pubmed/25548916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116423 Text en © 2014 Fei et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Fei, Ping Zaitoun, Ismail Farnoodian, Mitra Fisk, Debra L. Wang, Shoujian Sorenson, Christine M. Sheibani, Nader Expression of Thrombospondin-1 Modulates the Angioinflammatory Phenotype of Choroidal Endothelial Cells |
title | Expression of Thrombospondin-1 Modulates the Angioinflammatory Phenotype of Choroidal Endothelial Cells |
title_full | Expression of Thrombospondin-1 Modulates the Angioinflammatory Phenotype of Choroidal Endothelial Cells |
title_fullStr | Expression of Thrombospondin-1 Modulates the Angioinflammatory Phenotype of Choroidal Endothelial Cells |
title_full_unstemmed | Expression of Thrombospondin-1 Modulates the Angioinflammatory Phenotype of Choroidal Endothelial Cells |
title_short | Expression of Thrombospondin-1 Modulates the Angioinflammatory Phenotype of Choroidal Endothelial Cells |
title_sort | expression of thrombospondin-1 modulates the angioinflammatory phenotype of choroidal endothelial cells |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4280221/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25548916 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116423 |
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