Elsevier

Atherosclerosis

Volume 127, Issue 2, 20 December 1996, Pages 167-176
Atherosclerosis

Research paper
Modified low density lipoprotein and cytokines mediate monocyte adhesion to smooth muscle cells

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Abstract

Monocyte adhesion to the arterial wall is a key event in the atherosclerotic process. We studied the interactions between human coronary arterial intimal smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and monocytes by examining (i) whether SMCs mediate monocyte adhesion when stimulated by oxidatively modified low density lipoprotein (LDL) or by the cytokines TNFα and IL-1, and (ii) the role of the adhesion molecules VCAM-1 and ICAM-1 (vascular cell and intercellular adhesion molecule, respectively) in this process. Preincubation of SMCs with both TNFα and IL-1 caused a significant 2-fold increase in VCAM-1 and ICAM-1 expression and a more than 9-fold increase in monocyte adhesion. The latter was significantly inhibited (by 13) by neutralising antibodies to VCAM-1 and ICAM-1. Modified LDL also induced a significant 3-fold increase in monocyte adhesion to SMCs, but did not induce VCAM-1 or ICAM-1 expression, nor was this adhesion inhibited by neutralising antibodies to VCAM-1 or ICAM-1. Oxidatively modified LDL, like the proinflammatory cytokines TNFα and IL-1, has the ability to enhance monocyte adhesion to human SMCs in vitro. LDL-induced monocyte adhesion to SMCs is distinct from that induced by TNFα and IL-1 in its lack of dependence on the classical adhesion pathways involving smooth muscle VCAM-1 and ICAM-1. SMCs are identified as a new cell population which may play an active role in recruiting monocytes to the arterial intima and atherosclerotic plaque.

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