Bolus Endovascular PDGFR-β Antisense Treatment Suppressed Intimal Hyperplasia in a Rat Carotid Injury Model
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Intimal thickening in accelerated arteriopathies relies on the migration of medial vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and their proliferation within the neointima. Activation of platelet-derived growth factor receptor-beta (PDGFR-beta) expressed in injured VSMCs is responsible for the migration of medial VSMCs to the intima. In the present study, we wanted to assess whether a single local endovascular delivery of antisense PDGFR-beta in injured rat carotid arteries would be sufficient to prevent intimal hyperplasia and how it might contribute to the vascular healing process. METHODS AND RESULTS: A bolus of antisense PDGFR-beta delivered into injured rat carotid arteries reduced PDGFR-beta protein overexpression by >90% from day 3 to 28 after injury. At day 28 after injury, compared with injured untreated carotids, treatment with antisense PDGFR-beta reduced intimal hyperplasia by 58% and medial VSMC migration by 49% and improved vascular reendothelialization by 100% and vascular reactivity (EC(50)) to acetylcholine by 5-fold. CONCLUSIONS: A single-bolus luminal delivery of antisense PDGFR-beta to injured rat carotids reduced intimal hyperplasia, improved the reendothelialization process, and led to the recovery of endothelium-dependent regulation of vascular tone.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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