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Vascular Biology

Neointimal Formation After Endovascular Arterial Injury Is Markedly Attenuated in db/db Mice

Kent Stephenson; James Tunstead; Aileen Tsai; Ronald Gordon; Scott Henderson; Hayes M. Dansky

From the Departments of Medicine (K.S., J.T., A.T., H.M.D.) and Pathology (R.G.), Microscopy Shared Resource Facility (S.H.), Brookdale Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology (S.H.), and the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute (K.S., J.T., A.T., H.M.D.), New York, NY.

Correspondence to Hayes M. Dansky, MD, Cardiovascular Institute, Box 1269, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029. E-mail hayes.dansky{at}mssm.edu


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Objective— A diabetic mouse model of accelerated neointimal formation would be a useful tool to understand the increased incidence of restenosis in patients with diabetes.

Methods and Results— Femoral artery endoluminal wire injury was performed in diabetic insulin 2 Akita (ins2Akita) and leptin receptor db/db (leprdb/db) mutant mice. Neointima size in ins2Akita mouse arteries was unchanged compared with nondiabetic wild-type littermates. Although Ki67 labeling demonstrated similar rates of replication in the neointima of leprdb/db mouse arteries, neointimal formation in leprdb/db mice was surprisingly reduced by {approx}90% compared with nondiabetic lepr+/+ mice. Four hours after arterial injury, medial smooth muscle cell death was diminished in leprdb/db arteries, suggesting that the initial response to arterial injury was altered in leprdb/db mice.

Conclusions— These studies highlight a differential response to arterial injury in leprdb/db mice and suggest a potential role for leptin in the regulation of neointimal formation in response to arterial injury.


Key Words: leptin • diabetes • arterial injury • smooth muscle cell proliferation • restenosis


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Numerous clinical trial and observational data have indicated that diabetic patients have a higher incidence of restenosis after percutaneous coronary transluminal angioplasty and stent implantation compared with patients without diabetes.1–5 Serial intravascular ultrasound studies suggest that excessive neointimal hyperplasia is responsible for accelerated restenosis after angioplasty and coronary stent placement in patients with diabetes and impaired glucose tolerance.6,7 However, the relationships between the metabolic abnormalities present in diabetes and the cellular and molecular processes involved in restenosis are poorly understood.

A diabetic mouse model of accelerated neointimal formation would be a useful tool to understand the increased incidence of restenosis in patients with diabetes. Balloon angioplasty is technically challenging in the mouse because of the small vessel size, and a variety of wire injury models exist.8–14 Recent work has demonstrated that reproducible arterial injury can be performed in the mouse femoral artery using an angioplasty guidewire.8,15 We chose to study neointimal formation after bilateral femoral arterial injury in the diabetic, nonobese insulin 2 Akita (ins2Akita) and diabetic, obese leptin receptor db/db (leprdb/db) mouse strains. Ins2Akita mice have a spontaneous dominant mutation in the insulin 2 gene, resulting in defective proinsulin chain folding, reduced ß cell mass, hypoinsulinemia, and hyperglycemia.16 The ins2Akita mouse serves as a type I model of diabetes that does not require administration of a chemical diabetogen such as streptozotocin. leprdb/db mice have a mutation in the leptin receptor gene, resulting in a mutant protein lacking the cytoplasmic domain required for intracellular signaling.17 The leprdb/db model has many of the metabolic abnormalities (albeit more severe) noted in human obese diabetic subjects, such as obesity, hyperglycemia, and insulin resistance.17

We initially predicted that hyperglycemia or hyperinsulinemia would accelerate neointimal formation in response to arterial injury. Hyperglycemia per se did not alter neointimal formation in the ins2Akita mice, and neointimal formation was nearly absent in leprdb/db mice. Analysis of the early response to arterial injury in leprdb/db mice revealed substantial decreases in medial smooth muscle cell death. The near absence of neointimal formation in the leprdb/db mouse suggests a new potential role for leptin in the response to arterial injury.


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C57Bl/6 ins2Akita heterozygotes were obtained from Jackson Laboratory (stock No. 3548) and were bred with C57BL/6 mice to obtain C57Bl/6 ins2Akita heterozygotes and wild-type littermate controls for use in arterial injury experiments. A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay16,18 to identify the ins2Akita mutation was first used to identify C57Bl/6 ins2Akita heterozygotes. In all cases, a positive genotype correlated with a fasting blood glucose >300 mg/dL. Therefore, a fasting glucose >300 mg/dL was subsequently used to identify ins2Akita mice. C57Bl/6 mice were identified as mice having a fasting blood glucose <200 mg/dL. C57BLKS/J leprdb/+ breeding pairs were obtained from Jackson Laboratory (BKS.Cg-m, +/+, leprdb; stock No. 000642). The genotype of the mice was confirmed using a PCR/restriction-length polymorphism assay that can identify the db point mutation at the lepr locus.19 Phenotypes based on coat color and body habitus agreed with PCR genotype in all cases. Therefore, lepr+/+ and leprdb/db mice were subsequently identified by phenotype. The incorporation of the misty (m) gene tightly linked to the lepr locus allowed lepr+/+ and leprdb/db mice to be identified by their phenotypic appearance at 8 weeks of age, as previously described (http://jaxmice.jax.org/jaxmice-gi/jaxmicedb.cgi?objtype=pricedetail&stock=000642&dest=N). Briefly, body habitus and coat color were used to phenotype the mice. Lepr+/+ (genotype: m, lepr+/m, lepr+) mice were gray and lean; lepr+/db (genotype m, +/+, leprdb) were black and lean; and leprdb/db (genotype: +, leprdb/+, leprdb) were black and obese. All procedures were approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, consistent with the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.

Arterial Injury
Bilateral femoral artery procedure was performed as previously described8,15 with a few modifications. The arteriotomy was made in the superficial branch of the femoral artery, and a 0.3-mm angioplasty guidewire was used to denude and dilate the artery. The wire was removed and the superficial femoral artery was ligated, diverting blood flow down the deep femoral branch. Mice were given free access to food and water before and after arterial injury, and arterial specimens were obtained as previously described.8,15 Four-month-old female ins2akita/+ and ins2+/+ were euthanized 4 weeks after arterial injury. Despite setting up large numbers of synchronous matings of lepr+/db mice, we were unable to obtain sufficient numbers of sex- and age-matched lepr+/+ and leprdb/db mice for euthanasia at 2 different time points after arterial injury. Therefore, we arbitrarily euthanized female leprdb/db mice at 4 weeks and male leprdb/db mice at 2 weeks after arterial injury. Additional sections were obtained for immunohistochemical staining of platelets (rabbit anti-mouse thrombocyte, Cederlane Laboratories, Ontario, Canada) and smooth muscle cells ({alpha}-actin; Dako, 1A4). The area occupied by immunostained cells (expressed as ratio of area of immunostained cells per arterial circumference for platelets or area of immunostained cells per intimal area for {alpha}-actin) was quantified for each injured artery. Sections were then processed for terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end-labeling (TUNEL) staining using a commercially available kit according to the manufacturer’s instructions (fluorescein in situ cell death detection kit, Roche). Sections were also incubated with DAPI (Molecular Probes) to identify nuclei. Fluorescein (reflecting TUNEL-positive cells) and DAPI epifluorescence from all sections were viewed and simultaneously digitized using fixed exposure times on an epifluorescence microscope. Ki67 (Novocastra) and active Caspase-3 (BD Pharmingen) staining were visualized with a Vectastain ABC Elite kit and DAB substrate (Vector Laboratories). Comparisons between genotypes were performed using the Student’s t test using Prism software (Graph Pad). Analysis of males and females were performed separately.

Biochemical Measurements
At the time of euthanasia, mice were fasted for 6 hours and blood was obtained by ventricular puncture used to obtain plasma for lipoprotein fractions as previously described.20 Plasma was isolated from tail vein blood samples from fasted mice for measurements of plasma glucose (Sigma) and insulin (Linco).


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We determined whether the presence of type 1 or type 2 diabetes would promote neointimal formation after femoral artery endovascular injury. Ins2Akita mutant mice were used as a model of type 1 diabetes. Ins2Akita mice had normal body weight (27±1 versus 26±2 g; n=8 to 9 per group; P=NS) and were hyperglycemic (411±48 versus 150±26 mg/dL, n=7 to 9 per group, P<0.0001) compared with nondiabetic littermate controls. The presence of type 1 diabetes did not increase neointimal formation in the ins2Akita mouse model (Figures 1A and 1B). No significant differences in intimal area, medial area, and intimal to medial ratio (I/M) were noted after arterial injury in ins2Akita mice compared with nondiabetic wild-type controls (Figure 1C).



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  		Figure 1. Representative photomicrographs (x100) of combined Masson elastin–stained femoral artery sections and morphometric measurements from C57BL/6 wild-type and ins2Akita mice 4 weeks after injury. Neointima was present in sections from both C57bL/6 wild-type mice (A) and ins2Akita mice (B). Morphometric measurements revealed no significant difference in intimal area, media area, or I/M ratio between the 2 groups of mice (C).

Femoral artery endovascular injury was also performed in leprdb/db mutant mice, a model of type 2 diabetes. As previously reported,21,22 leprdb/db mice were obese, hyperglycemic, hyperinsulinemic, and hypercholesterolemic (Table I and Figure I, available online at http://atvb.ahajournals.org). After arterial injury, the mean intimal area and I/M in male leprdb/db mice were reduced by 88% and 85%, respectively, compared with male lepr+/+ mice (Figures 2A and 2C). No differences in medial area were noted in male mice after arterial injury (Figure 2B). In female leprdb/db mice, intimal area and I/M were reduced by 95% and 93%, respectively (Figures 2D and 2F). In contrast to male mice, there was also a small but significant decrease in medial area in female leprdb/db mice (Figure 2E). Histological examination of cross sections through the femoral artery from lepr+/+ mice revealed the presence of a neointima (Figures 3C and 3D). Many of these neointimal cells stained positive with anti-smooth muscle cell {alpha}-actin antibody, indicating a smooth muscle cell phenotype (data not shown). In contrast, a neointima was absent in nearly all sections from injured arteries from leprdb/db mice (Figures 3E and 3F), and arteries appeared very similar to sham-injured arteries (Figures 3A and 3B). Ki67 labeling was performed on arterial sections from lepr+/+ mice and on the limited number of femoral artery sections showing neointima in leprdb/db mice (Figure 4). The percentage of intimal nuclei labeled with Ki67 was not different in the neointima from lepr+/+ compared with leprdb/db mice (32±7.4, n=6, versus 35±1.8, n=2; P=NS).



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  		Figure 2. Morphometric measurements of cross sections of injured femoral arteries from lepr+/+ and leprdb/db mice. Measurements were obtained from male (A, B, and C) and female (D, E, and F) mice 2 and 4 weeks after injury, respectively. Bars denote the mean±SEM of intimal area (A and D), medial area (B and E), and I/M ratio (C and F). The number of arteries injured is denoted in parentheses.



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  		Figure 3. Representative photomicrographs of combined Masson elastin–stained femoral artery sections from sham, lepr+/+, and lepr db/db mice 4 weeks after arterial injury. Neointima is noted in sections from a lepr+/+ mouse (C and D) and not in sections from a leprdb/db mouse (E and F) nor from a sham-treated lepr+/+ mouse (A and B). B, D, and F are high magnification (x400) images of regions enclosed by a box in A, C, and E (x100).



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  		Figure 4. Representative photomicrographs (x400) of Ki67 staining in femoral artery sections from lepr+/+ and leprdb/db mice 2 weeks after arterial injury. Ki67-positive nuclei (brown staining) were noted in neointima from both lepr+/+ (A) and leprdb/db (B) mice.

lepr+/+ and leprdb/db mice were euthanized 4 hours after bilateral femoral artery injury to identify potential differences in the initial response to arterial injury that may be responsible for the inhibition of neointima in leprdb/db mice. Analysis of sham-injured arteries did not reveal any significant differences in lumen (0.028±0.007 versus 0.037±0.002 mm2, P=NS) and vessel (0.040±0.009 versus 0.048±0.001 mm2, P=NS) area in the femoral arteries of lepr+/+ mice compared with leprdb/db mice. There were also no differences in the area occupied by adherent platelets (0.001±0.0006 versus 0.0009±0.0004 mm, n=5, P=NS; see Figure 5). Alterations in the arterial media were noted in lepr+/+ mice compared with leprdb/db mice. The media from injured femoral arteries from lepr+/+ mice contained multiple areas devoid of cell nuclei (Figures 6C and 6D), with a decrease in the area occupied by {alpha}-actin–positive cells compared with leprdb/db and sham-injured lepr+/+ mice (Figure 6G). In contrast, the media of injured femoral arteries harvested from leprdb/db mice (Figures 6E and 6F) appeared similar to the media from sham-injured femoral arteries (Figures 6A and 6B), with no change in the area of {alpha}-actin–immunostained cells (Figure 6G). These findings suggested that mechanical injury of the femoral artery resulted in medial smooth muscle cell death in lepr+/+ mice but not in leprdb/db mice. To determine whether the difference in smooth muscle cell nuclear dropout and {alpha}-actin staining was attributable to mechanical injury–induced apoptosis, TUNEL staining was performed on sections derived from mice euthanized 4 hours after injury. Frequent TUNEL-positive smooth muscle cells were noted in sections derived from lepr+/+ femoral arteries (Figure IIA, available online), but TUNEL-positive cells were rarely seen in arteries harvested from lepr db/db mice (Figure IIB, available online). The area occupied by TUNEL-positive cells per unit area of media was markedly reduced in leprdb/db mice compared with lepr+/+ mice (Figure IIC). Staining for activated caspase-3 (Figure III, available online) did not identify apoptotic cells in the media 4 hours after arterial injury, suggesting that the TUNEL staining highlighted cell damage attributable to mechanical injury to cells and likely was not identifying cellular apoptosis. These results indicate that the differences in the extent of smooth muscle cell death 4 hours after arterial injury were related to reductions in mechanical injury–mediated smooth muscle cell necrosis in leprdb/db mice.



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  		Figure 5. Representative photomicrographs (x100) of femoral artery sections from lepr+/+ and leprdb/db mice 4 hours after arterial injury. Anti-thrombocyte antibody staining revealed platelet adherence to the injured arterial wall in femoral arteries from lepr+/+ (A) and leprdb/db (B) mice.



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  		Figure 6. Immunohistochemical staining for smooth muscle {alpha}-actin in femoral artery sections obtained 4 hours after arterial injury. A significant loss of medial {alpha}-actin–positive smooth muscle cells was noted in injured arterial sections from lepr+/+ mice (C and D). The decrease in {alpha}-actin–immunostained medial cells was not observed in arterial sections from leprdb/db mice (E and F) and sham-injured lepr+/+ mice (A and B). Quantification of the percentage of the media occupied by {alpha}-actin–positive cells is displayed in G. B, D, and F are high-magnification (x400) images of the boxed regions shown on low magnification (x100) images A, C, and E.


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Endovascular femoral artery injury was performed in mouse models of type 1 and 2 diabetes mellitus in an effort to create a mouse model in which diabetes accelerates the response to arterial injury. Neointimal size was unchanged after femoral artery injury of ins2Akita mice, a model of type 1 diabetes. Similar to our results, type I diabetes did not alter neointimal formation in streptozotocin-treated Sprague-Dawley rats.23 In contrast, neointimal formation in leprdb/db mice, a model of type II diabetes, was markedly attenuated. This seemingly paradoxical effect is consistent with previous reports in leprdb/db mice demonstrating impaired responses in several models of tissue injury.24–28 In response to FeCl3 or photochemical-induced injury of the carotid arteries, platelet adherence and time of vessel occlusion is delayed in both leprdb/db and lepob/ob mice.27,28 lepob/ob mice have a point mutation in the leptin gene, resulting in absent leptin levels, obesity, diabetes, and a phenotype nearly identical to the db/db mouse.29 Immunoreactive platelet deposition at 4 hours was unchanged after endovascular wire injury of leprdb/db mice in the present study. Variations in the type of injury model and the cellular events comprising the response to injury may underlie the differences in platelet adhesion among the studies. In addition, thrombosis is an uncommon finding in the wire injury model but is the end point in the FeCl3 and photochemical injury models. Nevertheless, the near absence of neointima in leprdb/db in the present study provides additional evidence for an attenuated vascular response to arterial injury in leprdb/db mice.

Preservation of {alpha}-actin–positive medial smooth muscle cells 4 hours after arterial injury indicates that differences exist in the initial response to arterial injury in leprdb/db mice. No significant differences in lumen size were observed in sham-injured lepr+/+ and leprdb/db arteries. Alterations in arterial caliber, tone, or compliance in the femoral artery of leprdb/db mice may have affected the magnitude of the mechanical force imparted to the femoral artery by the wire, resulting in inhibition of neointimal formation. Leptin has been shown to increase sympathetic nerve activity and arterial blood pressure in experimental models.30,31 Although arterial blood pressure in lepob/ob mice has been reported to be decreased compared with wild-type controls,32 other studies have documented no change in blood pressure in both lepob/ob and leprdb/db mice.30,33,34 Theoretically, a decrease in sympathetic nervous system activity or a decrease in arterial blood pressure could have had inhibitory effects on the response to arterial injury in leprdb/db mice in the present study. However, arterial rings isolated from lepob/ob and leprdb/db mice have enhanced contractile responses to norepinephrine and diminished relaxation to acetylcholine.35,36 The enhanced contractile responses would be expected to increase the mechanical force of injury and do not account for the diminished response to arterial injury in leprdb/db mice.

Medial smooth muscle cell death after arterial injury has been observed in numerous animal models of endovascular injury.37–39 The extent of TUNEL-positive staining was reduced in leprdb/db mice compared with lepr+/+ mice, but we were unable to document smooth muscle cell apoptosis by staining for activated caspase-3 at 4 hours after arterial injury. However, it is likely that both medial smooth muscle cell necrosis and apoptosis play a role in medial smooth muscle cell death after endovascular injury, because other reports have documented chromatin condensation on transmission electron microscopy and DNA fragmentation in medial smooth muscle cells after mechanical endovascular injury in the rat and the mouse.37–39 It is possible that decreases or delays in medial smooth muscle cell death may have affected the elaboration of chemotactic factors important for smooth muscle cell migration into the intima. At 2 weeks after arterial injury, Ki67 staining was unchanged in the neointima of leprdb/db mice. These data suggest that the marked inhibition of neointima formation in leprdb/db mice was not a direct result of diminished cellular proliferation but was more likely attributable to inhibition of events important in the initiation of smooth muscle migration in response to arterial injury.

The mechanism for the paradoxical reduction of neointimal formation in leprdb/db mice may be difficult to elucidate without the use of additional mutant mouse models. It is intriguing to speculate that inhibition of leptin signaling at the level of the vessel may have directly or indirectly impaired the response to arterial injury in the leprdb/db mice. Leptin administration just before FeCl3 or photochemical-induced carotid injury restores the time to thrombosis (to that observed in wild-type mice) in mice lacking leptin (lepob/ob) but not in mice with defective leptin signaling (leprdb/db).27,28 Arterial injury studies in the obese Zucker rat with a mutation in the leptin receptor (fa/fa) have not been consistent. One study demonstrated a 2-fold increase in neointimal formation in balloon-injured arteries23; however, this was not reproduced in a subsequent study.40 In addition to the central role of leptin in the regulation of food intake and energy balance,41 leptin seems to have numerous effects on vascular cells. Experimental studies have documented effects of leptin on vascular tone,42,43 endothelial reactive oxygen species generation,44 angiogenesis,45 proliferation of cultured vascular smooth muscle cells,46 platelet aggregation,47 and HDL metabolism.21 Elevation in HDL cholesterol in leprdb/db mice may have had an inhibitory effect on neointimal formation. Previous studies have demonstrated that human apoA-I exerts a protective effect on neointimal formation in injured mouse carotid arteries in hyperlipidemic mice.48,49 However, it is unclear whether this protective effect of HDL on neointimal formation occurs after endovascular injury in humans, because clinical studies have not clearly established low HDL as a predictor of restenosis after revascularization procedures.50,51

The understanding of the relationships among metabolic parameters and restenosis may lead to the identification of therapeutic agents that have salutary effects on both metabolism and restenosis. Thiazolidinediones, insulin-sensitizing agents used for glycemic control in humans, have been effective in reducing intimal formation in Zucker fatty and Sprague-Dawley rats52,53 and in one small human trial.54 Additional arterial injury studies in leptin-dependent (such as lepob/ob) and leptin-independent mouse models of type 2 diabetes should provide additional insight into whether the attenuated response to arterial injury is specific for leptin receptor mutant mice. It remains to be seen whether the presence of insulin resistance and diabetes will increase the response to arterial injury in the mouse.


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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by Animal Models of Diabetic Complication Consortium NIH grant HL-70524 and from funds from the Zena and Michael Wiener Cardiovascular Institute of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr Stephenson was supported by the Glorney-Raisbeck Cardiovascular Fellowship from the New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY. The authors wish to thank Drs Edward A. Fisher, Mark Taubman, and Jan Breslow for their scientific input. The authors gratefully acknowledge technical assistance from Otis Defritas and Yolanda Ortaga.

Received September 3, 2003; accepted September 9, 2003.


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