Protein Expression in Vascular Endothelial Cells Obtained from Human Peripheral Arteries and Veins
- 6 August 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Journal of Vascular Research
- Vol. 47 (1), 1-8
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000231715
Abstract
Studying molecular mechanisms of vascular endothelial function in humans is difficult in part because of limited access to arteries. Access to peripheral veins is more practical. We determined if differences in protein expression of endothelial cells (EC) collected from a peripheral artery are reflected in measurements made on EC obtained from peripheral veins. EC were collected from the brachial artery and an antecubital vein of 106 healthy adults (60 men and 46 women, age 18–77 years). Quantitative immunofluorescence was used to measure protein expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), Ser-1177 phosphorylated eNOS, manganese superoxide dismutase, nitrotyrosine, xanthine oxidase and nuclear factor-κB p65. Protein expression in EC obtained from brachial artery and antecubital vein sampling was moderately to strongly related (r = 0.59–0.81, all p < 0.0001, mean r = 0.70). Moreover, differences between subgroups in the lowest and highest tertiles of protein expression in EC obtained from arterial samples were consistently reflected in EC obtained from venous collections. These findings indicate that interindividual and group differences in expression of several proteins involved in nitric oxide production, oxidant production, antioxidant defense and inflammatory signaling in EC obtained from brachial artery sampling are consistently reflected in EC obtained from venous samples. Thus, EC collected from peripheral veins may provide a useful surrogate for EC obtained from arteries for measurements of EC protein expression in humans.Keywords
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