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Time Course of Osteopontin, Osteocalcin, and Osteonectin Accumulation and Calcification After Acute Vessel Wall Injury

Correspondence to: Alain-Pierre Gadeau, INSERM U441, Av du Haut Lévêque, 33600 Pessac, France. E-mail: alain.gadeau@bordeaux.inserm.fr

Although mineral deposits have long been described to be a prominent feature of atherosclerosis, the mechanisms of arterial calcification are not well understood. However, accumulation of the non-collagenous matrix bone-associated proteins, osteopontin, osteocalcin, and osteonectin, has been demonstrated in atheromatous plaques. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of these proteins in arterial calcification and, more precisely, during the initiation of this process. A model of rapid aortic calcification was developed in rabbits by an oversized balloon angioplasty. Calcification was followed using von Kossa staining and osteopontin, osteocalcin, and osteonectin were identified using immunohistochemistry. The aortic injury was rapidly followed by calcified deposits that appeared in the media as soon as 2 days after injury and then accumulated in zipper-like structures. Osteonectin was not detected in calcified deposits at any time after injury. In contrast, osteopontin and osteocalcin were detected in 8- and 14-day calcified structures, respectively, but not in the very early 2-day mineral deposits. These results suggest that these matrix proteins, osteopontin, osteocalcin, and osteonectin, are not involved in the initiation step of the aortic calcification process and that the former two might play a role in the regulation of arterial calcification. (J Histochem Cytochem 49:79–86, 2001)

Key Words: atherosclerosis, calcifications, extracellular matrix, vessel wall

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