COMPARISONS OF P-GLYCOPROTEIN EXPRESSION IN ISOLATED RAT-BRAIN MICROVESSELS AND IN PRIMARY CULTURES OF ENDOTHELIAL-CELLS DERIVED FROM MICROVASCULATURE OF RAT-BRAIN, EPIDIDYMAL FAT PAD AND FROM AORTA
Ma. Barrand et al., COMPARISONS OF P-GLYCOPROTEIN EXPRESSION IN ISOLATED RAT-BRAIN MICROVESSELS AND IN PRIMARY CULTURES OF ENDOTHELIAL-CELLS DERIVED FROM MICROVASCULATURE OF RAT-BRAIN, EPIDIDYMAL FAT PAD AND FROM AORTA, FEBS letters, 374(2), 1995, pp. 179-183
In vivo expression of P-glycoprotein in isolated rat brain microvessel
s is compared with that in vitro in primary cultures of brain endothel
ial cells, More P-glycoprotein is detected by Western immunoblotting i
n microvessels than in cultured endothelium. RT-PCR with isoform-speci
fic primers and immunoblotting with a mdr1b-specific antibody reveals
only mdr1a in vivo but both mdr1a and mdr1b in vitro, Thus mdr1a decre
ases whereas mdr1b increases during culture, P-Glycoprotein activity i
s evident in vitro, with resistance modulators, e.g. verapamil, produc
ing increases in intracellular [H-3]vincristine accumulation, Endothel
ial cells cultured from epididymal fat pad microvasculature and aorta
contain little or no P-glycoprotein. Here, resistance modulators are l
ess effective.