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1 Department of Molecular Pathobiology and 2 Third Department of Internal Medicine, Mie University School of Medicine, Tsu-city, Mie 514-8507, Japan
Several growth factors, including platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), have been implicated in the mechanism of lung and airway remodeling. In the present study, we evaluated whether thrombin may promote lung and airway remodeling by increasing PDGF production from lung and airway epithelial cells. Conditioned medium (CM) was prepared by treating epithelial cells with increasing concentrations of thrombin; before use in the assays, CM was treated with hirudin until complete inhibition of thrombin activity. CM from epithelial cells stimulated the proliferation of lung fibroblasts and bronchial smooth muscle cells. Anti-PDGF antibody significantly inhibited this CM proliferative activity, implicating PDGF in this effect. Enzyme immunoassay and RT-PCR demonstrated that thrombin induced the secretion and expression of PDGF from bronchial and alveolar epithelial cells. RT-PCR showed that epithelial cells express the thrombin receptors protease-activated receptor (PAR)-1, PAR-3, and PAR-4. The PAR-1 agonist peptide was also found to induce PDGF secretion from epithelial cells, suggesting that the cellular effect of thrombin occurs via a PAR-1-mediated mechanism. Overall, this study showed for the first time that thrombin may play an important role in the process of lung and airway remodeling by stimulating the expression of PDGF via its cellular receptor, PAR-1.
coagulation; lung fibrosis; bronchial asthma; platelet-derived growth factor receptor
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