Rat carotid arteriotomy: c-myc is involved in negative remodelling and apoptosis

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine
Marisa De FeoAntonino Cascino

Abstract

c-myc is the main proto-oncogene responsible for restenosis in cardiovascular surgery. The aim of our study was to evaluate the effects of c-myc antisense (AS) phosphorothioate oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) in the remodelling process induced by surgical carotid arteriotomy on an experimental rat model. Fifty-five rats with carotid stenosis and apoptosis induced by arteriotomy were submitted to gene expression analysis 4 h after surgery, to TUNEL assay 48 h after surgery and to histological analysis 30 days later. AS ODNs induced a 60% decrease in target c-myc mRNA in injured carotid arteries compared to control sense and scrambled ODN-treated carotid arteries (P < 0.05). Histological evaluation revealed that stenosis stimulated by arteriotomy was mainly due to adventitial constrictive remodelling rather than to neointimal hyperplasia, observed only in a limited number of samples. Morphometric analysis showed that lumen area in c-myc AS ODN-treated carotid arteries was 35% greater than in control arteries (P < 0.05), whereas the media/lumen area ratio showed a 63% reduction in AS ODN-treated carotid arteries in comparison to control arteries (P < 0.05). Surgical injury affected the expression of apoptosis-related genes Bcl-2, Bax...Continue Reading

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