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(American Journal of Pathology. 2001;159:2271-2280.)
© 2001 American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Increased Tie2 Expression, Enhanced Response to Angiopoietin-1, and Dysregulated Angiopoietin-2 Expression in Hemangioma-Derived Endothelial Cells

Ying Yu^*, Joyce Varughese^*, Lawrence F. Brown, John B. Mulliken and Joyce Bischoff^*

From the Surgical Research Laboratory,^*
Division of Plastic Surgery,
and Department of Surgery,
Children’s Hospital, and the Department of Pathology,
Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Infantile hemangiomas are endothelial tumors that grow rapidly in the first year of life and regress slowly during early childhood. Although hemangiomas are well-known vascular lesions, little is known about the mechanisms that cause the excessive endothelial cell proliferation in these most common tumors of infancy. To investigate the molecular basis of hemangioma, we isolated endothelial cells from several proliferative-phase lesions and showed that these cells are clonal and exhibit abnormal properties in vitro (E. Boye, Y. Yu, G. Paranya, J. B. Mulliken, B. R. Olsen, J. Bischoff: Clonality and altered behavior of endothelial cells from hemangiomas. J Clin Invest 2001, 107:745–752). Here, we analyzed mRNA expression patterns of genes required for angiogenesis, including members of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)/VEGF receptor family and the angiopoietin/Tie family, in hemangioma-derived and normal endothelial cells. KDR, Flt-1, Tie1, Tie2, and angiopoietin-2 (Ang2) were strongly expressed in cultured hemangioma-derived endothelial cells and in hemangioma tissue. In contrast, there was little expression of angiopoietin-1 (Ang1) or VEGF. We found Tie2 mRNA and protein up-regulated with a concomitant increase in cellular responsiveness to Ang1 in most hemangioma-derived endothelial cells. Ang2 mRNA was down-regulated in response to serum in hemangioma-derived endothelial cells, but not in normal endothelial cells, suggesting altered regulation. These findings implicate Tie2 and its ligands Ang1 and Ang2 in the pathogenesis of hemangioma.

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