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Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) promotes macrophage foam cell formation via reduced expression of ATP binding cassette transporter-1 (ABCA1)
- Title
- Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) promotes macrophage foam cell formation via reduced expression of ATP binding cassette transporter-1 (ABCA1)
- Authors
- Cho W.; Kang J.L.; Park Y.M.
- Ewha Authors
- 이지희; 조원경; 박영미
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 이지희; 조원경; 박영미
- Issue Date
- 2015
- Journal Title
- PLoS ONE
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- Citation
- PLoS ONE vol. 10, no. 6
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- Atherosclerosis, the major pathology of cardiovascular disease, is caused by multiple factors involving psychological stress. Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), which is released by neurosecretory cells in the hypothalamus, peripheral nerve terminals and epithelial cells, regulates various stress-related responses. Our current study aimed to verify the role of CRH in macrophage foam cell formation, the initial critical stage of atherosclerosis. Our quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase PCR (qRT-PCR), semi-quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR, and Western blot results indicate that CRH down-regulates ATP-binding cassette transporter-1 (ABCA1) and liver X receptor (LXR)-α, a transcription factor for ABCA1, in murine peritoneal macrophages and human monocyte-derived macrophages. Oil-red O (ORO) staining and intracellular cholesterol measurement of macrophages treated with or without oxidized LDL (oxLDL) and with or without CRH (10 nM) in the presence of apolipoprotein A1 (apoA1) revealed that CRH treatment promotes macrophage foam cell formation. The boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY)-conjugated cholesterol efflux assay showed that CRH treatment reduces macrophage cholesterol efflux. Western blot analysis showed that CRH-induced down-regulation of ABCA1 is dependent on phosphorylation of Akt (Ser473) induced by interaction between CRH and CRH receptor 1(CRHR1). We conclude that activation of this pathway by CRH accelerates macrophage foam cell formation and may promote stress-related atherosclerosis. Copyright: © 2015 Cho et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0130587
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- 의과대학 > 의학과 > Journal papers
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