Published online before print March 29, 2004, doi: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000125742.65841.8B
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(Circulation. 2004;109:2109-2115.)
© 2004 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Antioxidant Intervention Attenuates Myocardial Neovascularization in Hypercholesterolemia
From the Department of Internal Medicine, Divisions of Hypertension (X.-Y.Z., A.R.C., L.O.L.) and Cardiovascular Diseases (M.R.-P., N.C., A.L., L.O.L.), and Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering (E.R.L.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn; the Department of Biological Sciences, Minnesota State University, Mankato (M.D.B.); the Departments of Clinical Pathology and Medicine, University of Naples, Italy (V.S., C.N.); and the Department of Cardiology, Xin-hua Hospital, Shanghai, China (X.Z.).
Correspondence to Lilach O. Lerman, MD, PhD, Division of Hypertension, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First St, SW, Rochester, MN 55905. E-mail lerman.lilach{at}mayo.edu
Received March 20, 2003; de novo received November 3, 2003; revision received January 9, 2004; accepted January 14, 2004.
Background— Hypercholesterolemia (HC) and atherosclerosis can elicit oxidative stress, coronary endothelial dysfunction, and myocardial ischemia, which may induce growth-factor expression and lead to myocardial neovascularization. We tested the hypothesis that chronic antioxidant intervention in HC would attenuate neovascularization and preserve the expression of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1
and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF).
Methods and Results— Three groups of pigs (n=6 each) were studied after 12 weeks of normal or 2% HC diet or HC+antioxidant supplementation (100 IU/kg vitamin E and 1 g vitamin C daily). Myocardial samples were scanned ex vivo with a novel 3D micro-CT scanner, and the spatial density and tortuosity of myocardial microvessels were determined in situ. VEGF mRNA, protein levels of VEGF and VEGF receptor-1, HIF-1, nitrotyrosine, and superoxide dismutase (SOD) were determined in myocardial tissue. The HC and HC+antioxidant groups had similar increases in serum cholesterol levels. HC animals showed an increase in subendocardial spatial density of microvessels compared with normal (160.5±11.8 versus 95.3±8.2 vessels/cm2, P<0.05), which was normalized in HC+antioxidant (92.5±20.5 vessels/cm2, P<0.05 versus HC), as was arteriolar tortuosity. In addition, HC induced upregulation of VEGF, HIF-1, and nitrotyrosine expression and decreased SOD expression and activity, all of which were preserved by antioxidant intervention.
Conclusions— Changes in myocardial microvascular architecture invoked by HC are accompanied by increases in HIF-1 and VEGF expression and attenuated by antioxidant intervention. This underscores a role of increased oxidative stress in modulating myocardial microvascular architecture in early atherogenesis.
Key Words: antioxidant • atherosclerosis • hypercholesterolemia • oxidative stress
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