Effects of chronic exposure to cigarette smoke on canonical transient receptor potential expression in rat pulmonary arterial smooth muscle

To clarify the possible mechanism of cigarette smoke (CS)-induced pulmonary hypertension and furthermore provide effective targets for prevention and treatment, the effects of chronic CS on rat pulmonary arterial smooth muscle in vivo and nicotine treatment on rat pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) in vitro were investigated. In this study, we demonstrated that chronic CS exposure led to rat weight loss, right ventricular hypertrophy, and pulmonary arterial remodeling. A fluorescence microscope was used to measure intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca(2+)]i) in rat distal PASMCs. Results showed that basal [Ca(2+)]i and store-operated calcium entry (SOCE) levels in PASMCs from 3- and 6-mo CS-exposed rats were markedly higher than those in cells from the unexposed control animals (the increases in 6-mo CS group were more significant than that in 3-mo group), accompanied with increased canonical transient receptor potential 1 (TRPC1) and TRPC6 expression at both mRNA and protein levels in isolated distal PA. Simultaneously, in vitro study showed that nicotine treatment (10 nM) significantly increased basal [Ca(2+)]i and SOCE and upregulated TRPC1 and TRPC6 expression in cultured rat distal PASMCs. TRPC siRNA knockdown strategies revealed that the elevations of basal [Ca(2+)]i and SOCE induced by nicotine in PASMCs were TRPC1 and TRPC6 dependent. These results suggested that chronic CS-induced changes in vascular tone and structure in PA and the development of pulmonary hypertension might be largely due to upregulation of TRPC1 and TRPC6 expression in PASMCs, in which nicotine played an important role.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2014

Erschienen:

2014

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:306

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American journal of physiology. Cell physiology - 306(2014), 4 vom: 15. Feb., Seite C364-73

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Jian [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Yuqin [VerfasserIn]
Lin, Chunyi [VerfasserIn]
Jia, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Tian, Lichun [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Kai [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Lai, Ning [VerfasserIn]
Jiang, Qian [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Yueqian [VerfasserIn]
Zhong, Nanshan [VerfasserIn]
Ran, Pixin [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Wenju [VerfasserIn]

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6M3C89ZY6R
Cigarette smoke
Journal Article
Nicotine
Nicotinic Agonists
Pulmonary hypertension
RNA, Messenger
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SOCE
TRPC
TRPC Cation Channels
Transient receptor potential cation channel, subfamily C, member 1
Trpc6 protein, rat

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Date Completed 11.04.2014

Date Revised 21.10.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1152/ajpcell.00048.2013

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM233646396