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American Heart Association, Circulation, 2(127), p. 233-243, 2013

DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.112.119479

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Cell Selective Cardiovascular Biology of Microsomal Prostaglandin E Synthase-1Clinical Perspective

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Abstract

Background— Global deletion of microsomal prostaglandin E synthase 1 (mPGES-1) in mice attenuates the response to vascular injury without a predisposition to thrombogenesis or hypertension. However, enzyme deletion results in cell-specific differential use by prostaglandin synthases of the accumulated prostaglandin H 2 substrate. Here, we generated mice deficient in mPGES-1 in vascular smooth muscle cells, endothelial cells, and myeloid cells further to elucidate the cardiovascular function of this enzyme. Methods and Results— Vascular smooth muscle cell and endothelial cell mPGES-1 deletion did not alter blood pressure at baseline or in response to a high-salt diet. The propensity to evoked macrovascular and microvascular thrombogenesis was also unaltered. However, both vascular smooth muscle cell and endothelial cell mPGES-1–deficient mice exhibited a markedly exaggerated neointimal hyperplastic response to wire injury of the femoral artery in comparison to their littermate controls. The hyperplasia was associated with increased proliferating cell nuclear antigen and tenascin-C expression. In contrast, the response to injury was markedly suppressed by myeloid cell depletion of mPGES-1 with decreased hyperplasia, leukocyte infiltration, and expression of proliferating cell nuclear antigen and tenascin-C. Conditioned medium derived from mPGES-1–deficient macrophages less potently induced vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration than that from wild-type macrophages. Conclusions— Deletion of mPGES-1 in the vasculature and myeloid cells differentially modulates the response to vascular injury, implicating macrophage mPGES-1 as a cardiovascular drug target.