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- Title
Effects of Recombinant Human Macrophage Colony—Stimulating Factor on Atherosclerotic Lesions Established in the Aorta of High Cholesterol—Fed Rabbits.
- Authors
Irie, Hiroyuki; Koshiba, Hiroshi; Koyama, Mamoru; Asakura, Eiji; Shibata, Hiroshi; Kimura, Kazuyuki; Naito, Kazuhide; Yamauchi, Takeshi; Yada, Kouji; Hanamura, Takuji; Hanada, Shuichi; Abe, Syun-ichi; Nakamura, Norifumi
- Abstract
Anti-atherosclerotic effects of human macrophage colony-stimulating factor were investigated using rabbits fed a high cholesterol diet. Rabbits fed a diet containing 2% cholesterol for 59 days developed hyperlipidemia and atheromatous aortic plaques. They were then administered 80 μg/kg/day of either macrophage colony-stimulating factor or human serum albumin, as a control, for the next 12 weeks. Compared with the control group, rabbits treated with macrophage colony-stimulating factor had significantly fewer plaques on the inner surface of the thoracic and abdominal aortae, and half the sectional area of thickened intima in the aortic arch, as well as in the thoracic and abdominal aortae. Macrophage colony-stimulating factor also decreased the cholesterol content of the atherosclerotic lesions. Serobiochemical analyses revealed that macrophage colony-stimulating factor increased the levels of high density lipoprotein-choles-terol significantly, without influencing other lipid parameters such as the level of low density lipoproteins. The effects of macrophage colony-stimulating factor were evident until the fourth week of drug injection, at which time anti-human macrophage colony-stimulating factor antibodies were clearly induced in the serum. These results indicate that exogenously administered macrophage colony-stimulating factor suppresses atherosclerotic lesions induced by a high cholesterol diet by activating lipid metabolism in vivo.
- Subjects
HIGH cholesterol diet; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MACROPHAGES; BLOOD plasma; ANIMAL models in research
- Publication
Journal of Biochemistry, 2001, Vol 129, Issue 5, p717
- ISSN
0021-924X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a002911