Regulation of Hypoxia-induced Pulmonary Hypertension by Vascular Smooth Muscle Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1α
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- 1 February 2014
- journal article
- Published by American Thoracic Society in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
- Vol. 189 (3), 314-324
- https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201302-0302oc
Abstract
Chronic hypoxia induces pulmonary vascular remodeling, pulmonary hypertension, and right ventricular hypertrophy. At present, little is known about mechanisms driving these responses. Hypoxia-inducible factor-1α (HIF-1α) is a master regulator of transcription in hypoxic cells, up-regulating genes involved in energy metabolism, proliferation, and extracellular matrix reorganization. Systemic loss of a single HIF-1α allele has been shown to attenuate hypoxic pulmonary hypertension, but the cells contributing to this response have not been identified. We sought to determine the contribution of HIF-1α in smooth muscle on pulmonary vascular and right heart responses to chronic hypoxia. We used mice with homozygous conditional deletion of HIF-1α combined with tamoxifen-inducible smooth muscle-specific Cre recombinase expression. Mice received either tamoxifen or vehicle followed by exposure to either normoxia or chronic hypoxia (10% O2) for 30 days before measurement of cardiopulmonary responses. Tamoxifen-induced smooth muscle-specific deletion of HIF-1α attenuated pulmonary vascular remodeling and pulmonary hypertension in chronic hypoxia. However, right ventricular hypertrophy was unchanged despite attenuated pulmonary pressures. These results indicate that HIF-1α in smooth muscle contributes to pulmonary vascular remodeling and pulmonary hypertension in chronic hypoxia. However, loss of HIF-1 function in smooth muscle does not affect hypoxic cardiac remodeling, suggesting that the cardiac hypertrophy response is not directly coupled to the increase in pulmonary artery pressure.This publication has 52 references indexed in Scilit:
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