- 著者
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Koji Yamashita
Tadaatsu Imaizumi
Masaharu Hatakeyama
Wakako Tamo
Daisuke Kimura
Mika Kumagai
Hidemi Yoshida
Kei Satoh
- 出版者
- Tohoku University Medical Press
- 雑誌
- The Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine (ISSN:00408727)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.200, no.4, pp.187-194, 2003 (Released:2004-09-08)
- 参考文献数
- 35
- 被引用文献数
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CX3CL1-/fractalkine is a chemokine with a unique CX3C motif. Hypoxia mediates the expression of various genes, such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), cyclooxygenase-2, and plasminogen-activator inhibitor-1, in vascular endothelial cells. We studied the eect of hypoxia on the expression of fractalkine induced by interferon-γ (IFN-γ) in endothelial cells. Human umbilical vein endothelial cells were cultured, and the stimulation of the cells with IFN-γ was found to induce the expression of fractalkine. Hypoxia inhibited the expression of fractalkine mRNA and protein by IFN-γ, and this eect was observed with concomitant increase in VEGF expression. Desferrioxamine, an iron chelator that mimics hypoxia in vitro, also inhibited the fractalkine production induced by IFN-γ. Hypoxia did not aect the degradation of fractalkine mRNA. The inhibition of fractalkine expression by hypoxia was reversed on returning the cultures to reoxygenation condition. Inhibition of IFN-induced fractalkine expression by hypoxia was not aected by the presence of a radical scavenger, N-acetyl-L-cysteine, and the involvement of reactive oxygen species may be excluded. Inhibition of fractalkine expression by hypoxia may be involved in the pathophysiology of ischemic diseases.