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Effects of lipopolysaccharide on low- and high-density cultured rabbit vascular smooth muscle cells: differential modulation of nitric oxide release, ERK1/ERK2 MAP kinase activity, protein tyrosine phosphatase activity, and DNA synthesis
Provedor de dados: Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
Autores: Barbosa de Oliveira,L.C.; Rocha Oliveira,C.J.; Fries,D.M.; Stern,A.; Monteiro,H.P.
Previous studies have shown that exogenously generated nitric oxide (NO) inhibits smooth muscle cell proliferation. In the present study, we stimulated rabbit vascular smooth muscle cells (RVSMC) with E. coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a known inducer of NO synthase transcription, and established a connection between endogenous NO, phosphorylation/dephosphorylation-mediated signaling pathways, and DNA synthesis. Non-confluent RVSMC were cultured with 0, 5, 10, or 100 ng/ml of the endotoxin. NO release was increased by 86.6% (maximum effect) in low-density cell cultures stimulated with 10 ng/ml LPS as compared to non-stimulated controls. Conversely, LPS (5 to 100 ng/ml) did not lead to enhanced NO production in multilayered (high density) RVSMC. DNA...
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Palavras-chave: Nitric oxide; Lipopolysaccharide; Protein tyrosine phosphatases; Mitogen-activated protein kinases; DNA synthesis; Cell density.
Ano: 2002
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2002000200006