Immunohistochemical localisation of PDE5 in rat lung during pre- and postnatal development.
In mammalian lung, at the transition to extrauterine life, NO/cGMP signal transduction system is known to play crucial roles in the regulation of vascular resistance and is supposed to act in angiogenesis. PDE5, which is the most abundant cGMP metabolizing enzyme within the lung, is highly expressed in the perinatal period, but its localisation in the different pulmonary cells is still poorly known. In our research, PDE5 immunohistochemical distribution was investigated in foetal and neonatal rat lung. The highest expression of PDE5 was found in cells randomly located in the stroma; in newborns, in particular, many cells in the intersaccular walls were heavily labelled, while much lower staining levels were shown by smooth myocytes belonging to vessels and airways. On the basis of their immunoreactivity for alpha-SM actin and/or desmin, most of the heavily PDE5-positive cells were identified as interstitial myofibroblasts and transitional pericytes, while only a few were interpreted as interstitial lipofibroblasts.
Scipioni
Angela
A
Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Giorgi
Mauro
M
Nuccetelli
Valeria
V
Stefanini
Stefania
S
D000199:Actins / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D054706:Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 5 / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000378:metabolism*; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D003893:Desmin / Q000378:metabolism; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian; D005260:Female; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008168:Lung / Q000196:embryology / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000254:growth & development / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar
D000199:Actins; D054706:Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 5; D003598:Cytoskeletal Proteins; D003893:Desmin; C498862:Acta2 protein, rat
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