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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 140, 357-364, Copyright © 1992 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Extracellular matrix protein gene expression in atherosclerotic hypertensive pulmonary arteries

MD Botney, LR Kaiser, JD Cooper, RP Mecham, D Parghi, J Roby and WC Parks
Department of Medicine, Jewish Hospital, Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, Missouri.

Lobar pulmonary arteries from patients with unexplained pulmonary hypertension were obtained at the time of single-lung transplantation to determine the response of large elastic vessels to increased intraluminal pressure. Specifically, human pulmonary arteries were examined to determine if remodeling remained active at the time of surgery and whether remodeling was similar to previously reported remodeling observed in several animal models. Grossly, the hypertensive vessels appeared atherosclerotic. Histochemical stains revealed a thick, diffuse neointima in hypertensive vessels compared with normal vessels. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated elastin protein in the neointima and in situ hybridization studies demonstrated tropoelastin mRNA largely in the neointima. Similarly, immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization detected cellular fibronectin, thrombospondin and type I collagen protein and mRNA within the thickened intima from hypertensive vessels. These studies provide evidence that hypertensive vessels in patients with severe chronic pulmonary hypertension are actively remodeling but that the pattern of remodeling is different from previously described animal models.

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