title: Culture of rat mesenteric arteriolar smooth muscle cells: effects of platelet-derived growth factor, angiotensin, and nitric oxide on growth.
abstract: We cultured smooth muscle cells as explants from rat mesenteric arterioles (40-200 microns in diameter) obtained by injecting a suspension of iron oxide intraarterially and magnetically separating the arterioles after collagenase digestion of adventitial tissue. In third-passaged cells we ascertained smooth muscle purity of > 98% by characteristic morphology, contraction responses, and specific immunofluorescence staining. Treatment of growth-arrested (in 0.4% fetal calf serum) cells with platelet-derived growth factor (0.3-7.5 nM) or angiotensin II (0.001-1000 nM) induced 3H-thymidine incorporation and cell proliferation in a dose-dependent manner (P < 0.01). S-nitroso-N acetylpenicillamine (0.05-0.5 mM), a nitric oxide-generating compound, inhibited 10% fetal calf serum-induced 3H-thymidine incorporation (P < 0.05) and cell proliferation (P < 0.01). The antimitogenic effect of S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine was significantly reduced by hemoglobin and potentiated by superoxide dismutase (P < 0.01). In addition to a new technique for culturing mesenteric arteriolar smooth muscle cells, these findings provide evidence that platelet-derived growth factor, angiotensin II, and nitric oxide may be involved in their growth control.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown.
authors.forename: R K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Dubey
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Overbeck
mesh_terms: D000804:Angiotensin II / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D001160:Arterioles / Q000166:cytology; D001790:Blood Physiological Phenomena; D002417:Cattle; D002455:Cell Division / Q000187:drug effects; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005290:Ferric Compounds; D008297:Male; D008643:Mesentery / Q000098:blood supply*; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects*; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000502:physiology*; D010396:Penicillamine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D010982:Platelet-Derived Growth Factor / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D026423:S-Nitroso-N-Acetylpenicillamine
chemical_list: D005290:Ferric Compounds; D010982:Platelet-Derived Growth Factor; D000804:Angiotensin II; C000499:ferric oxide; D009569:Nitric Oxide; D026423:S-Nitroso-N-Acetylpenicillamine; D010396:Penicillamine