Population
Cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAEC)
Comparison
Shear stress exposure for 6 hours, with or… vs Baseline/unstimulated cells
Design
Preclinical
Key result
Shear stress exposure of 4 and 25 dynes/cm2 increased the eNOS/GAPDH mRNA ratio in bovine aortic endothelial cells by 4.8- and 7.95-fold, respectively, in a calcium-dependent manner.
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Hypothesis-generating for calcium-permissive eNOS regulation by shear; should not yet change clinical practice.
Effect estimate: 4.8- and 7.95-fold increase
Shear stress induction of eNOS mRNA in endothelial cells is a calcium-dependent but not calcium-activated process.
Xiao et al. (1997) studied this question. Shear stress was evaluated on eNOS/GAPDH mRNA ratio (4.8- and 7.95-fold increase). Shear stress exposure of 4 and 25 dynes/cm2 increased the eNOS/GAPDH mRNA ratio in bovine aortic endothelial cells by 4.8- and 7.95-fold, respectively, in a calcium-dependent manner.
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