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An angiogenic role for the α5β1 integrin in promoting endothelial cell proliferation during cerebral hypoxia

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
dc.contributor Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
dc.contributor van der Flier, Arjan
dc.contributor Hynes, Richard O.
dc.creator Li, Longxuan
dc.creator Welser-Alves, Jennifer
dc.creator van der Flier, Arjan
dc.creator Boroujerdi, Amin
dc.creator Milner, Richard
dc.creator Hynes, Richard O
dc.date 2016-02-25T16:10:43Z
dc.date 2016-02-25T16:10:43Z
dc.date 2012-06
dc.date 2012-06
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:07:12Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:07:12Z
dc.identifier 00144886
dc.identifier 1090-2430
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101277
dc.identifier Li, Longxuan, Jennifer Welser-Alves, Arjan van der Flier, Amin Boroujerdi, Richard O. Hynes, and Richard Milner. “An Angiogenic Role for the Α5β1 Integrin in Promoting Endothelial Cell Proliferation During Cerebral Hypoxia.” Experimental Neurology 237, no. 1 (September 2012): 46–54.
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7603-8396
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278820
dc.description Fibronectin is a critical regulator of vascular modelling, both in development and in the adult. In the hypoxic adult central nervous system (CNS), fibronectin is induced on angiogenic vessels, and endothelial cells show strong induction of the two fibronectin receptors α5β1 and αvβ3 integrins. In a previous study, we found that the αvβ3 integrin is dispensable for hypoxic-induced cerebral angiogenesis, but a role for the endothelial α5β1 integrin was suggested. To directly investigate the role of endothelial α5 integrin in cerebral angiogenesis, wild-type mice and mice lacking α5 integrin expression in endothelial cells (α5-EC-KO) were subject to hypoxia (8% O[subscript 2]) for 0, 2, 4, 7 or 14 days. Quantification of cerebral vessel density and endothelial-specific proteins claudin-5 and Glut-1 revealed that α5-EC-KO mice displayed an attenuated angiogenic response, which correlated with delayed endothelial proliferation. α5-EC-KO mice showed no defect in the ability to organize a cerebrovascular fibronectin matrix, and no compensatory increase in vascular αvβ3 integrin expression. Consistent with these findings, primary α5KO brain endothelial cells (BEC) in culture exhibited delayed growth and proliferation. Taken together, these studies demonstrate an important angiogenic role for the α5β1 integrin in promoting BEC proliferation in response to cerebral hypoxia.
dc.description National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (PO1-HL66105)
dc.description National Institute of General Medical Sciences (U.S.). Cell Migration Consortium (GC11451.126452)
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dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.06.005
dc.relation Experimental Neurology
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.source PMC
dc.title An angiogenic role for the α5β1 integrin in promoting endothelial cell proliferation during cerebral hypoxia
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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