title: Hypoxia/Notch signaling in primary culture of rat lymphatic endothelial cells.
abstract: We have developed an improved intralumenal digestion method to get a long-term primary culture of rat lymphatic endothelial cells (rLECs) that maintained their original phenotypes. rLECs in vitro under hypoxia retained their original lymphatic properties observed in the thoracic duct. Blocking Notch signal with a gamma-secretase inhibitor and transfection of a cDNA expressing a dominant negative form of Delta1 indicated that Notch signal downregulated VEGFR-2 under hypoxia and inhibited cell migration. These findings indicated that Notch signal was still operative in mature lymphatic endothelial cells in response to the oxygen concentration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Hard Tissue Engineering, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8549, Japan.
authors.forename: Hideki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ota
authors.forename: Ken-Ichi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Katsube
authors.forename: Jyun-Ichi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yanagishita
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015687:Cell Hypoxia / Q000502:physiology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D017931:DNA Primers / Q000235:genetics; D015536:Down-Regulation; D042783:Endothelial Cells / Q000378:metabolism*; D004729:Endothelium, Lymphatic / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D051880:Receptors, Notch / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015398:Signal Transduction; D040301:Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers; D051880:Receptors, Notch; D040301:Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2