ArticleInflammation2012
Nicotine induces pro-inflammatory response in aortic vascular smooth muscle cells through a NFκB/osteopontin amplification loop-dependent pathway.
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- Impact of prolonged exposure to occasional and regular waterpipe smoke on cardiac injury, oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction in male mice.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Nicotine promotes vascular calcification via intracellular Ca2+-mediated, Nox5-induced oxidative stress, and extracellular vesicle release in vascular smooth muscle cells.Cardiovascular research · 2022Article
- Relationship between the duration of smoking and blood pressure in Han and ethnic minority populations: a cross-sectional study in China.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Nicotine promotes atherosclerosis via ROS-NLRP3-mediated endothelial cell pyroptosis.Cell death & disease · 2018Article
- Macrophages under pressure: the role of macrophage polarization in hypertension.Translational research : the journal of laboratory and clinical medicine · 2018Review
- A Review of Pulmonary Toxicity of Electronic Cigarettes in the Context of Smoking: A Focus on Inflammation.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2017Review
- Nicotine Mediates CD161a+ Renal Macrophage Infiltration and Premature Hypertension in the Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat.Circulation research · 2016Article
- Modulation Effect of HIV-1 Viral Proteins and Nicotine on Expression of the Immune-Related Genes in Brain of the HIV-1 Transgenic Rats.Journal of neuroimmune pharmacology : the official journal of the Society on NeuroImmune Pharmacology · 2016Article
- Autonomic neural regulation of the immune system: implications for hypertension and cardiovascular disease.Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) · 2012Review
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Abstract
Nicotine has anti- and pro-inflammatory properties in various cells. Its role in aortic vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) was explored. Human aortic VSMC were cultured. After nicotine (1.0 μM) and/or pyrrolidinedithiocarbamic acid (PDTC, 50 μM) treatment, the activation of nuclear factor κB (NFκB) was investigated. The levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, osteopontin (OPN), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) were also assessed. After OPN was downregulated by small interfering RNA (siRNA) transfection, the pro-inflammatory effect was reassessed. We found that NFκB was activated after nicotine administration. Nicotine upregulated OPN, IL-6, and MCP-1 expressions, and this effect attenuated after PDTC pretreatment. RNAi knocked down the OPN expression in nicotine-treated cells and abolished its pro-inflammatory effects. We concluded that nicotine induces a pro-inflammatory response in VSMC through a NFκB/osteopontin amplification loop-dependent pathway.
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