Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.
Curr Opin Endocrinol Diabetes Obes. 2018 Apr;25(2):143-146. doi: 10.1097/MED.0000000000000390.
Cholesterol metabolism is increasingly recognized in inflammatory diseases including transplantation. This review discusses the mechanistic underpinnings that tie macrophage cholesterol efflux capacity (CEC) of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) to chronic rejection in transplanted patients.
Animal studies suggest that administration of apolipoprotein A-I, the main protein constituent of HDL, can prevent transplant arteriosclerosis. apoA-I administration increases CEC of HDL. In patients with cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), decreased CEC has been associated with poorer survival. In addition, reduced CEC in recipients, pretransplant, has been associated with the development of CAV and renal allograft survival.
These recent findings raise the hypothesis that increasing cholesterol efflux may prevent chronic rejection and improve allograft survival after transplant. Reconstituted HDL significantly increases CEC and is currently in clinical development for traditional atherosclerosis. Clinical trials of reconstituted HDL administration in transplantation should be performed.
胆固醇代谢在包括移植在内的炎症性疾病中越来越受到重视。本综述讨论了将巨噬细胞胆固醇流出能力(CEC)与移植患者慢性排斥反应联系起来的机制基础。
动物研究表明,载脂蛋白 A-I(HDL 的主要蛋白成分)的给药可以预防移植性动脉硬化。apoA-I 给药可增加 HDL 的 CEC。在心脏同种异体移植血管病(CAV)患者中,CEC 降低与生存率降低相关。此外,移植前受者 CEC 降低与 CAV 的发展和肾移植存活相关。
这些最近的发现提出了这样一种假设,即增加胆固醇流出可能预防慢性排斥反应并改善移植后的同种异体移植物存活。重组 HDL 可显著增加 CEC,目前正在开发用于传统动脉粥样硬化。应进行移植中重组 HDL 给药的临床试验。