PUBLICATION
BMP signaling modulation attenuates cerebral arteriovenous malformation formation in a vertebrate model
- Authors
- Walcott, B.P.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-140724-6
- Date
- 2014
- Source
- Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 34(10): 1688-94 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Activin Receptors, Type I/genetics
- Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Blockers/therapeutic use
- Animals
- Antihypertensive Agents/therapeutic use*
- Arteriovenous Malformations/drug therapy*
- Arteriovenous Malformations/genetics
- Arteriovenous Malformations/metabolism
- Arteriovenous Malformations/pathology
- Bone Morphogenetic Proteins/metabolism
- Brain/blood supply*
- Brain/drug effects
- Brain/metabolism
- Brain/pathology
- Cerebral Arteries/abnormalities*
- Cerebral Arteries/drug effects
- Cerebral Arteries/metabolism
- Cerebral Arteries/pathology
- Cerebral Veins/abnormalities*
- Cerebral Veins/drug effects
- Cerebral Veins/metabolism
- Cerebral Veins/pathology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Gene Knockdown Techniques
- Losartan/therapeutic use*
- Signal Transduction/drug effects*
- Smad1 Protein/metabolism
- Zebrafish
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- PubMed
- 25052553 Full text @ J. Cereb. Blood Flow Metab.
Citation
Walcott, B.P. (2014) BMP signaling modulation attenuates cerebral arteriovenous malformation formation in a vertebrate model. Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. 34(10):1688-94.
Abstract
Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are vascular anomalies that carry a high risk of stroke and death. To test potential AVM therapies, a reverse genetics approach was used to model AVMs in zebrafish. Antisense morpholino oligonucleotides were used to knockdown activin receptor-like kinase I (alk1), which encodes a transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta family type I receptor implicated in a subset of human AVMs. Knockdown of alk1 caused a spectrum of morphologic, functional, and molecular defects that resemble those seen in humans with AVMs. It was found that losartan, an angiotensin II receptor antagonist, attenuated abnormal blood vessel morphology and systemic manifestations of high-output arteriovenous shunting in vivo. SMAD1 phosphorylation was significantly decreased in alk1 morphants compared with uninjected organisms (0.189±0.0201, 0.429±0.0164, P=0.0002). After treatment, morphant SMAD1 levels approached uninjected levels (0.326±0.0360, P=0.0355) and were significantly higher than those seen in the morphant-control group (P=0.0294). These data suggest that modulating the BMP signaling pathway with losartan, a drug in widespread clinical use in humans as an antihypertensive, may have the potential to be further evaluated as a therapeutic strategy for patients with AVMs.Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism advance online publication, 23 July 2014; doi:10.1038/jcbfm.2014.134.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping