Increased vascular permeability contributes to many diseases, including acute respiratory distress syndrome, cancer and inflammation. Most past work on vascular barrier function has focused on soluble regulators, such as tumour-necrosis factor-α. Here we show that lung vascular permeability is controlled mechanically by changes in extracellular matrix structure. Our studies reveal that pulmonary vascular leakage can be increased by altering extracellular matrix compliance in vitro and by manipulating lysyl oxidase-mediated collagen crosslinking in vivo. Either decreasing or increasing extracellular matrix stiffness relative to normal levels disrupts junctional integrity and increases vascular leakage. Importantly, endotoxin-induced increases of vascular permeability are accompanied by concomitant increases in extracellular matrix rigidity and lysyl oxidase activity, which can be prevented by inhibiting lysyl oxidase activity. The identification of lysyl oxidase and the extracellular matrix as critical regulators of lung vascular leakage might lead to the development of new therapeutic approaches for the treatment of pulmonary oedema and other diseases caused by abnormal vascular permeability.

血管通透性增加導致許多疾病，包括急性呼吸窘迫綜合征，癌癥和炎癥。過去有關血管屏障功能的大多數(shù)工作都集中在可溶性調(diào)節(jié)劑上，例如腫瘤壞死因子-α。在這里，我們顯示肺血管通透性是由細胞外基質(zhì)結(jié)構(gòu)的變化機械地控制的。我們的研究表明，通過改變體外細胞外基質(zhì)的順應性和在體內(nèi)操縱賴氨酰氧化酶介導的膠原蛋白交聯(lián)可以增加肺血管滲漏。相對于正常水平降低或增加細胞外基質(zhì)硬度都會破壞連接完整性并增加血管滲漏。重要的，內(nèi)毒素誘導的血管通透性增加伴隨著細胞外基質(zhì)剛性和賴氨酰氧化酶活性的同時增加，這可以通過抑制賴氨酰氧化酶活性來預防。賴氨酰氧化酶和細胞外基質(zhì)作為肺血管滲漏的關鍵調(diào)節(jié)劑的鑒定可能會導致開發(fā)新的治療方法，用于治療由異常的血管通透性引起的肺水腫和其他疾病。

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•10、產(chǎn)品成熟，文獻量達上千篇