BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology · 2011
Impaired vascular permeability regulation caused by the VEGF₁₆₅b splice variant in pre-eclampsia.
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Bills V L, Salmon A H, Harper S J, Overton T G, Neal C R, Jeffery B, Soothill P W, Bates D O
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OBJECTIVE: Pre-eclampsia is diagnosed by hypertension and proteinuria, probably caused by endothelial dysfunction, resulting in symptoms including oedema, inflammation and altered metabolism. Vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF-A) is detected at higher concentrations in plasma from patients with pre-eclampsia than in plasma from normotensive pregnant patients when determined by radioimmunoassay. This study tested the hypothesis that circulating VEGF-A in pre-eclamptic plasma is biologically active in vivo, and aimed to identify specific isoforms responsible for this activity.
DESIGN: Plasma from pre-eclamptic (n = 17) and normotensive (n = 10) pregnant women was perfused into Rana mesenteric microvessels, and the subsequent change in microvascular permeability was measured using a single-vessel perfusion micro-occlusion technique.
RESULTS: Pre-eclamptic but not normotensive plasma resulted in a 5.25 ± 0.8-fold acute increase in vascular permeability (P = 0.0003). This increase could be blocked by the incubation of plasma with bevacizumab, an antibody to VEGF-A (n = 7; P = 0012), and by VEGF-A receptor inhibition by SU5416 at doses specific to VEGF-A receptor-1 (VEGFR1), but not by the VEGF-A receptor-2 inhibitor, ZM323881. Although VEGF(165) b levels were not significantly altered in the PET samples, the increase in permeability was also inhibited by incubation of pre-eclamptic plasma with an inhibitory monoclonal antibody specific for VEGF₁₆₅b (n=6; P<0.01), or by the addition of placental growth factor 1 (PlGF-1; n = 3; P < 0.001). PlGF-1 was detected at lower concentrations in pre-eclamptic plasma than in normotensive plasma.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that circulating VEGF-A levels in pre-eclampsia are biologically active because of a loss of repression of VEGFR1 signalling by PlGF-1, and VEGF₁₆₅b may be involved in the increased vascular permeability of pre-eclampsia.
DESIGN: Plasma from pre-eclamptic (n = 17) and normotensive (n = 10) pregnant women was perfused into Rana mesenteric microvessels, and the subsequent change in microvascular permeability was measured using a single-vessel perfusion micro-occlusion technique.
RESULTS: Pre-eclamptic but not normotensive plasma resulted in a 5.25 ± 0.8-fold acute increase in vascular permeability (P = 0.0003). This increase could be blocked by the incubation of plasma with bevacizumab, an antibody to VEGF-A (n = 7; P = 0012), and by VEGF-A receptor inhibition by SU5416 at doses specific to VEGF-A receptor-1 (VEGFR1), but not by the VEGF-A receptor-2 inhibitor, ZM323881. Although VEGF(165) b levels were not significantly altered in the PET samples, the increase in permeability was also inhibited by incubation of pre-eclamptic plasma with an inhibitory monoclonal antibody specific for VEGF₁₆₅b (n=6; P<0.01), or by the addition of placental growth factor 1 (PlGF-1; n = 3; P < 0.001). PlGF-1 was detected at lower concentrations in pre-eclamptic plasma than in normotensive plasma.
CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that circulating VEGF-A levels in pre-eclampsia are biologically active because of a loss of repression of VEGFR1 signalling by PlGF-1, and VEGF₁₆₅b may be involved in the increased vascular permeability of pre-eclampsia.