Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a major complication of systemic sclerosis. Although oxidative stress, intima hyperplasia and a progressive vessel occlusion appear to be clearly involved, the fine molecular mechanisms underpinning the onset and progression of systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension remain largely unknown. Here we shows for the first time that an increase of NADPH-derived reactive oxygen species production induced by sera from systemic sclerosis patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension drives collagen type I promoter activity in primary human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells, suggesting that antioxidant-based therapies should be considered in the treatment of systemic sclerosis-associated vascular diseases.
Oxidative stress-dependent activation of collagen synthesis is induced in human pulmonary smooth muscle cells by sera from patients with scleroderma-associated pulmonary hypertension / Pintus, Gianfranco; Boin, Francesco; Erre, Gian Luca; Posadino, Anna Maria; Giordo, Roberta; Spinetti, Gaia; Emanueli, Costanza; Passiu, Giuseppe; Cossu, Annalisa. - In: ORPHANET JOURNAL OF RARE DISEASES. - ISSN 1750-1172. - 9:1(2014), pp. 123-128. [10.1186/s13023-014-0123-7]
Oxidative stress-dependent activation of collagen synthesis is induced in human pulmonary smooth muscle cells by sera from patients with scleroderma-associated pulmonary hypertension
Pintus, Gianfranco;Erre, Gian Luca;Posadino, Anna Maria;Giordo, Roberta;Emanueli, Costanza;Passiu, Giuseppe;Cossu, Annalisa
2014-01-01
Abstract
Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a major complication of systemic sclerosis. Although oxidative stress, intima hyperplasia and a progressive vessel occlusion appear to be clearly involved, the fine molecular mechanisms underpinning the onset and progression of systemic sclerosis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension remain largely unknown. Here we shows for the first time that an increase of NADPH-derived reactive oxygen species production induced by sera from systemic sclerosis patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension drives collagen type I promoter activity in primary human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells, suggesting that antioxidant-based therapies should be considered in the treatment of systemic sclerosis-associated vascular diseases.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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