Pilot studies using a variety of strategies suggested that this goal could be best achieved by stimulating primary organ cell cultures with TNF - α (10 ng / ml) and targeting cells expressing the endothelial
cell adhesion molecules E-selectin and VCAM - 1 through a FACS - driven strategy.
Established cell lines exhibited several inherent endothelial properties, including the expression of constitutive and inducible levels of endothelial
cell adhesion molecules E-selectin, intercellular adhesion molecule - 1, and vascular cell adhesion molecule - 1, internalization of acetylated low - density lipoprotein, and formation of loop structures on Matrigel surfaces.
The constitutive and inducible expression of the endothelial
cell adhesion molecules E-selectin, ICAM - 1, and VCAM - 1 was assessed by immunohistochemistry (Figs. 4, A — C) ⇓.
Not exact matches
The constitutive expression of these endothelial
cell adhesion molecules was very similar for most of the lines derived from different organs, i.e., very low expression levels of
E-selectin and VCAM - 1 and more pronounced expression of ICAM - 1.
When primary cultures from these mice are stimulated with proinflammatory cytokines, the endothelial
cell fraction responds by up - regulating the inducible endothelial
cell adhesion molecules,
E-selectin and VCAM - 1.
The selection strategy targeted
cell populations expressing the inducible endothelial
cell adhesion molecules,
E-selectin and VCAM - 1, and proved successful in generating microvascular endothelial
cell lines from a number of different organs.
To determine inducible endothelial
cell adhesion molecule expression (
E-selectin, VCAM - 1, and ICAM - 1), some of the chambers were given medium containing 10 ng / ml TNF - α for 4 — 6 h (these time points were selected to correlate with the known kinetics of endothelial
cell adhesion molecule expression; Refs.
We therefore conducted a cross-sectional analysis to investigate the relations between magnesium intake and plasma concentrations of inflammatory and endothelial biomarkers, including CRP, IL - 6, soluble TNF - α receptor 2 (sTNF - R2),
E-selectin, soluble intercellular
adhesion molecule 1 (sICAM - 1), and soluble vascular
cell adhesion molecule 1 (sVCAM - 1) in apparently healthy women.
In a
cell - culture study, polyunsaturated fats did not alter TNF - α — mediated up - regulation of the
adhesion molecules ICAM - 1, VCAM - 1, and
E-selectin (34).