Exomeres From Adventitial Fibroblasts of Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats Promote Vascular Remodelling via Transferring Osteopontin.

ABSTRACT: Vascular adventitial fibroblasts (VAFs) contribute to vascular remodelling in hypertension. However, the mechanisms by which VAFs regulate vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in vascular remodelling are not well known. Here we report the crucial roles of extracellular nanoparticles exomeres (EMs) derived from VAFs in promoting VSMCs proliferation, migration and vascular remodelling in normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). VSMCs' proliferation and migration were enhanced by EMs of SHR via the uptake of EMs in VSMCs, but not by EMs of WKY. Proteomics analysis showed that increased osteopontin (OPN) content may be responsible for the roles of EMs of SHR, which was confirmed by the fact that EMs of SHR pretreated with OPN knockdown lost their roles in

SUBMITTER: Wang JX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12326188 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature