摘要
To examine whether hypoxia exerts effect on the expression of basic fibroblast growth ac- tor (bFGF) in pulmonary vascular pericytes (PC), cell culture, in .citu hybridization with probe of digoxigenin-11-dUTP-labled cDNA, immunocytochemistry and image analysis were employed in this study. The results showed that the expression amount of bFGF mRNA and protein in PC of hypoxia (H) group was 1.31 times (P<0. 01) and 1. 17 times (P<0. 01) that of normoxia (N) group re- spectively. It suggests that hypoxia can directly enhance the expression of bFGF mRNA and protein in PC. Increased expression of bFGF may play an important role in the process of PC proliferation and differentiation of PC into smooth muscle-like cells.
To examine whether hypoxia exerts effect on the expression of basic fibroblast growth ac- tor (bFGF) in pulmonary vascular pericytes (PC), cell culture, in .citu hybridization with probe of digoxigenin-11-dUTP-labled cDNA, immunocytochemistry and image analysis were employed in this study. The results showed that the expression amount of bFGF mRNA and protein in PC of hypoxia (H) group was 1.31 times (P<0. 01) and 1. 17 times (P<0. 01) that of normoxia (N) group re- spectively. It suggests that hypoxia can directly enhance the expression of bFGF mRNA and protein in PC. Increased expression of bFGF may play an important role in the process of PC proliferation and differentiation of PC into smooth muscle-like cells.
基金
This project was supported by the grant of the NationalNature Sciences Foundation of China (No. 39570289).
