Abstract:
:In adult domestic fowl, angiotensin (ANG) receptors are present in the vascular smooth muscles (VSM) and in the endothelium, mediating vasorelaxation via endothelium-derived relaxing factor/cGMP. ANG II-induced relaxation is minor in chicks and becomes more marked as they mature but diminishes in adult birds, whereas ANG II neither relaxes nor contracts endothelium-denuded aortae from mature chickens. The present study examines in cultured fowl aortic SM cells whether (1) ANG II stimulates or inhibits VSM cell growth and, if so, whether this growth-stimulatory or -inhibitory effect changes with maturation/aging, and (2) S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP), a nitric oxide donor, and cGMP attenuate the basal or stimulated VSM cell growth. [Asp1, Val5]ANG II (native fowl ANG II, 10(-6) M) markedly increased (increase from vehicle control, 226.5%; P < 0.01) [3H]thymidine (Thd) incorporation into DNA of quiescent VSM cells (first subculture) from 6-week-old chicks. This growth-stimulating effect was reduced with age (41.4, 29.6, and 3.2% at 9, 19, and 43 weeks of age, respectively). In contrast, platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF, 20 ng/ml) increased [3H]Thd incorporation similarly in chicks, pullets, and hens. Furthermore, ANG II significantly (45.9%, P < 0.01) attenuated the growth-promoting effect of fetal calf serum in cultured VSM cells from 6-week-old chicks. This inhibitory effect also decreased in older birds. ANG II showed neither a growth-stimulatory nor -inhibitory effect in cultured neointimal cells. SNAP attenuated dose dependently (20-60 microM) the basal and PDGF-induced VSM cell growth, whereas cGMP inhibited basal growth only at a high dose (100 microM). These results indicate that in fowl VSM cells, ANG II is mitogenic and antimitogenic in chicks but not in mature birds, suggesting that phenotypic modulation occurs in the ANG receptors/signaling mechanism with maturation/age or in neointimal cells, whereas the mitogenic mechanism via PDGF remains in both young and mature birds.
journal_name
Gen Comp Endocrinoljournal_title
General and comparative endocrinologyauthors
Shimada T,Fabian M,Yan HQ,Nishimura Hdoi
10.1006/gcen.1998.7150subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-10-01 00:00:00pages
115-28issue
1eissn
0016-6480issn
1095-6840pii
S0016-6480(98)97150-7journal_volume
112pub_type
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