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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the possibility of improving the delivery of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene to the myocardium in rats by using ultrasound-mediated microbubble destruction (UMMD). METHODS: Fifteen male Wistar rats underwent left anterior descending coronary artery ligation in this study. The rats were divided into three groups 3 days after ligation. Ultrasound microbubble vectors (UMVs) attaching to pcD2VEGF121 gene were injected into the tail vein of rats with or without simultaneous echocardiographic microbubble destruction in two groups. The third group was used as control group. VEGF protein expression and formation of new blood vessels were evaluated by immunohistochemical technique during autopsy on 15 rats at 2 weeks after gene transformation. Microvascular density (MVD) in the area with myocardial infarction was counted under a microscope. RESULTS: VEGF protein expression and MVD in the ischemic myocardium were higher in the rats receiving UMMD than in the group that did not receive UMMD. CONCLUSION: UMMD is a noninvasive method to effectively improve the delivery of targeted genes to the heart.

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Terapia Genética/métodos , Microburbujas , Infarto del Miocardio/patología , Infarto del Miocardio/terapia , Neovascularización Fisiológica/fisiología , Factor A de Crecimiento Endotelial Vascular/farmacología , Análisis de Varianza , Animales , Biopsia con Aguja , Modelos Animales de Enfermedad , Técnicas de Transferencia de Gen , Vectores Genéticos , Inmunohistoquímica , Masculino , Probabilidad , Distribución Aleatoria , Ratas , Ratas Wistar , Factores de Riesgo , Sensibilidad y Especificidad , Resultado del Tratamiento , Factor A de Crecimiento Endotelial Vascular/genética

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An statistical analysis of aorta-septal angle(AS angle) between anterior wall of aorta and ventricular septum was taken,AS angle was measured fromthe right ventricle with long-axis, two-dimensional echocardiongram of the left ventricle in 227 consecutive cases of patients with cardiovascular diseases and 80 healthy adults since 1985. It was found that AS angle for normal adults at the end of systoie(ES) and the end of diastole(ED) being 118.50?? 7.70? and 110.60??8.23?; the difference between ES and ED was 7.89??4.51?. In patients with overburdening of left ventricular volume and resistance of coronary artery disease, car-diomycpathy and hypertension , AS angles were amaller,and in patients with overburdening of right ventricular pressure of rheumatic mitral stenosis, AS angles were larger than healthy adults. The difference between ES and ED was smaller than normal for all patients. It was also found that in patients with heartdisease AS angle tends to be smaller or larger before the appearance of abnormality of the left ventricular cavity. Our data suggested that AS angle variance might afford some clinical significance of diagnosis