Colchicine protects against the development of experimental abdominal aortic aneurysm
Clinical science (London, England : 1979)(2023)
摘要
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is characterized by at least 1.5-fold enlargement of the in-frarenal aorta, a ruptured AAA is life-threatening. Colchicine is a medicine used to treat gout and familial Mediterranean fever, and recently, it was approved to reduce the risk of cardio-vascular events in adult patients with established atherosclerotic disease. With an AAA mice model created by treatment with porcine pancreatic elastase (PPE) and beta-aminopropionitrile (BAPN), this work was designed to explore whether colchicine could protect against the de-velopment of AAA. Here, we showed that colchicine could limit AAA formation, as evidenced by the decreased total aortic weight per body weight, AAA incidence, maximal abdominal aortic diameter and collagen deposition. We also found that colchicine could prevent the phenotypic switching of vascular smooth muscle cells from a contractile to synthetic state during AAA. In addition, it was demonstrated that colchicine was able to reduce vascular inflammation, oxidative stress, cell pyroptosis and immune cells infiltration to the aortic wall in the AAA mice model. Finally, it was proved that the protective action of colchicine against AAA formation was mainly mediated by preventing immune cells infiltration to the aortic wall. In summary, our findings demonstrated that colchicine could protect against the develop-ment of experimental AAA, providing a potential therapeutic strategy for AAA intervention in the clinic.
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