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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 87, 205-225, Copyright © 1977 by American Society for Investigative Pathology
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RW Mahley, TL Innerarity, KH Weisgraber and DL Fry
Dogs maintained for 1 year on a semisynthetic diet containing hydrogenated coconut oil and cholesterol developed hypercholesterolemia. In those cases where plasma cholesterol levels exceeded 750 mg/100 ml, the animals also developed severe atherosclerosis. This atherogenic hyperlipoproteinemia was characterized by the presence of beta very low density lipoproteins (B- VLDL), increased levels of low density lipoproteins (LDL), and the occurrence of the HDLc lipoproteins. In all of these cholesterol-rich lipoproteins the arginine-rich apoprotein (ARP) was prominent. Moreover, the HDLc (d = 1.006-1.02) contained the ARP as the only detectable apoprotein. The atherosclerosis involved the abdominal aorta, coronary and cerebrovascular arteries, and many of the peripheral arteries. Histologically, the aortic lesions were characterized by a variable intimal proliferative response and extensive medial lipid deposition. In the peripheral, coronary, and cerebral arteries, the lesions were more extensive and involved primarily the media of the vessel wall, with little intimal reaction in many cases. The correlation between the in vivo disease process and the response of aortic smooth muscle cells (SMC) grown in tissue culture to the various cholesterol-induced lipoproteins was examined. B-VLDL, LDL, and HDLc (but not HDL2) caused a marked accumulation of free and esterified cholesterol in the SMC. The cholesterol accumulation was found to be more extensive in canine SMC than in swine smooth muscle cells or smooth muscle cells of other species in response to a similar lipoprotein cholesterol concentration. The enhanced sterol uptake appeared to be a property of canine smooth muscle cells rather than a property of the canine lipoproteins. These in vitro results may be related to the observed propensity for the development of medical disease that was demonstrated in the in vivo studies.
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