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. 1990 Apr;187(2):339-42.
doi: 10.1016/0014-4827(90)90102-g.

Endothelin and PDGF do not stimulate peripheral blood monocyte chemotaxis, adhesion to endothelium, and superoxide production

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Endothelin and PDGF do not stimulate peripheral blood monocyte chemotaxis, adhesion to endothelium, and superoxide production

P M Bath et al. Exp Cell Res. 1990 Apr.

Abstract

Endothelin is a potent vasoconstrictory endothelial-derived peptide which can induce smooth muscle proliferation and therefore may be proatherogenic. Platelet-derived growth factor is also a potent mitogenic vasoconstrictory protein which is proatherogenic. We report that neither endothelin nor PDGF stimulate superoxide production, or monocyte adhesion to porcine aortic endothelial cell monolayers; additionally endothelin is not a chemoattractant factor for monocytes. If endothelin and PDGF are important in atherogenesis it is unlikely that a monocyte response to these mediators is involved.

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