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Inhaled corticosteroid normalizes some but not all airway vascular remodeling in COPD.


ABSTRACT:

Background

This study assessed the effects of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) on airway vascular remodeling in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Methods

Thirty-four subjects with mild-to-moderate COPD were randomly allocated 2:1 to ICS or placebo treatment in a double-blinded clinical trial over 6 months. Available tissue was compared before and after treatment for vessel density, and expression of VEGF, TGF-?1, and TGF-?1-related phosphorylated transcription factors p-SMAD 2/3. This clinical trial has been registered and allocated with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) on 17/10/2012 with reference number ACTRN12612001111864.

Results

There were no significant baseline differences between treatment groups. With ICS, vessels and angiogenic factors did not change in hypervascular reticular basement membrane, but in the hypovascular lamina propria (LP), vessels increased and this had a proportionate effect on lung air trapping. There was modest evidence for a reduction in LP vessels staining for VEGF with ICS treatment, but a marked and significant reduction in p-SMAD 2/3 expression.

Conclusion

Six-month high-dose ICS treatment had little effect on hypervascularity or angiogenic growth factors in the reticular basement membrane in COPD, but normalized hypovascularity in the LP, and this was physiologically relevant, though accompanied by a paradoxical reduction in growth factor expression.

SUBMITTER: Soltani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5038570 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Inhaled corticosteroid normalizes some but not all airway vascular remodeling in COPD.

Soltani Amir A   Walters Eugene Haydn EH   Reid David W DW   Shukla Shakti Dhar SD   Nowrin Kaosia K   Ward Chris C   Muller H Konrad HK   Sohal Sukhwinder Singh SS  

International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 20160922


<h4>Background</h4>This study assessed the effects of inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) on airway vascular remodeling in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).<h4>Methods</h4>Thirty-four subjects with mild-to-moderate COPD were randomly allocated 2:1 to ICS or placebo treatment in a double-blinded clinical trial over 6 months. Available tissue was compared before and after treatment for vessel density, and expression of VEGF, TGF-β1, and TGF-β1-related phosphorylated transcription factors p-SM  ...[more]

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