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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 104, 1582-1588, Copyright © 1992 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association

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The effect of transforming growth factor-alpha on airway angiogenesis

DE Schraufnagel, DA Arzouman, M Sekosan and YK Ho
Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago 60680-6998.

A problem in lung transplantation is tracheal or bronchial dehiscence from ischemia. To determine if an angiogenic factor applied to the airway would improve capillary regrowth, a three-ring segment of trachea was completely severed and sutured in rats. In one group of animals the ischemic segment was wrapped with Gelfoam soaked in an angiogenic factor, transforming growth factor-alpha. In a second group the ischemic area was wrapped with Gelfoam soaked with only the vehicle. In a third group the devascularized area received no additional treatment. One animal from each group was killed daily for 7 days after operation. The tracheal vasculature was cast and viewed by light and scanning electron microscopy. None of the four animals that died early were in the transforming growth factor-alpha group. All animals lost weight between the day of operation and death, but this was least in the transforming growth factor-alpha group (p = 0.05). The light microscopy showed ischemic changes and the development of granulation tissue. The scanning electron microscopy of the vascular casts showed extensive loss of the vessels in the cut area. On day 1 the vessels of all animals dilated and their walls became rough. By day 3 a few corkscrew vessels penetrated the ischemic zone. By day 4 the animal that received transforming growth factor-alpha had more capillaries than the others. By day 6 revascularization in the transforming growth factor-alpha animal was abundant. Besides budding, new capillaries appeared to develop by lateral growth. After the fifth day vessels about 30 to 50 microns in diameter bulged focally. On the bulges, ridges the size, shape, and pattern of capillaries formed. Capillary formation in this manner has not been reported previously. Revascularization emerged sooner and more extensively with transforming growth factor-alpha. No adverse effect of transforming growth factor- alpha was found.




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