摘要
Atherosclerosis is a chronic multifactorial cardiovascular disease.Western diets have been reported to affect atherosclerosis through regulating adipose function.In high cholesterol diet-fed ApoE^(−/−)mice,adipocyte HIF-1αdeficiency or direct inhibition of HIF-1αby the selective pharmacological HIF-1αinhibitor PX-478 alleviates high cholesterol diet-induced atherosclerosis by reducing adipose ceramide generation,which lowers cholesterol levels and reduces inflammatory responses,resulting in improved dyslipidemia and atherogenesis.Smpd3,the gene encoding neutral sphingomyelinase,is identified as a new target gene directly regulated by HIF-1αthat is involved in ceramide generation.Injection of lentivirus-SMPD3 in epididymal adipose tissue reverses the decrease in ceramides in adipocytes and eliminates the improvements on atherosclerosis in the adipocyte HIF-1α-deficient mice.Therefore,HIF-1αinhibition may constitute a novel approach to slow atherosclerotic progression.
基金
This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2018YFA0800700 and 2018YFC1003900)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.91857115,31925021,82022028 and 81921001).
