Abstract:
OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether upregulation of OX40-OX40 ligand (OX40L) system is related to stability of coronary atherosclerotic plaque in patients with coronary heart diseases. METHODS:Thirty normal controls and 250 patients, including 80 with stable angina (SA), 110 with unstable angina (UA), and 60 with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), were enrolled in our study. The expression of OX40 and OX40L in peripheral CD4 T lymphocytes were analyzed by flow cytometry. Serum soluble OX40L (sOX40L) and C-reactive protein levels were measured by commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay kit. RESULTS:The expression of OX40 and OX40L in peripheral CD4 T lymphocytes in patients with UA [26.7 +/- 3.4 and 45.5 +/- 8.1 mean fluorescence intensity (MFI)] and AMI (27.4 +/- 4.6 and 55.7 +/- 9.4 MFI) were significantly higher than those in patients with SA (6.5 +/- 1.4 and 12.4 +/- 3.2 MFI) and controls (7.3 +/- 1.5 and 11.9 +/- 6.1 MFI). sOX40L in patients with UA (38.7 +/- 6.9 ng/mL) and AMI (39.5 +/- 7.3 ng/mL) were significantly higher than those in patients with SA (8.4 +/- 1.4 ng/mL) (P < 0.01) and controls (8.9 +/- 2.3 ng/mL) (P < 0.01). C-reactive protein level in serum in patients with UA (14.6 +/- 3.3 ng/mL) and AMI (15.0 +/- 4.3 ng/mL) were also higher than those in patients with SA (1.4 +/- 0.4 ng/mL) and controls (1.3 +/- 0.3 ng/mL). It was interesting that there was a peak level of sOX40L at 12 hours after AMI in patients with AMI. A positive correlation was found between sOX40L and serum C-reactive protein levels (r = 0.71; P < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS:Patients with acute coronary syndromes showed increased coexpression of OX40 system, which may create a proinflammatory and prothrombotic milieu for aggravating the development of atherosclerosis and instability of atherosclerotic plaques, and sOX40L is a potential marker for predicting the severity of coronary heart diseases.
journal_name
J Cardiovasc Pharmacoljournal_title
Journal of cardiovascular pharmacologyauthors
Yan J,Chen G,Gong J,Wang C,Du Rdoi
10.1097/FJC.0b013e3181be7578subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-11-01 00:00:00pages
451-5issue
5eissn
0160-2446issn
1533-4023journal_volume
54pub_type
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