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Effect of acute exercise on endothelial progenitor cells in patients with peripheral arterial disease

Departments of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Sam Greene

Arash Arshi

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Resource Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Greg Supple

Departments of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Andrew Bantly

Jonni S Moores

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and the Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Resource Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Michael S Parmacek

Emile R Mohler, III

Departments of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA; mohlere{at}uphs.upenn.edu

To determine whether exercise increases endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) in patients with peripheral vascular disease, we developed a multi-parameter flow cytometry assay to rigorously assess EPCs and mature endothelial cells (ECs) in control subjects and patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) subjected to graded exercise. Blood was collected from young healthy subjects (n = 9, mean age 33 years),older healthy subjects (n = 13,mean age 66 years),and older subjects with PAD (n = 15,mean age 69 years) before and 10 minutes after exercise. White blood cells were isolated and stained with a five-color antibody panel: FITC-anti-CD31, PE-anti-CD146, PE-anti-CD133, PerCP-Cy5.5-anti-CD3,-CD19,-CD33, PE-Cy7-anti-CD34, and APC-anti-VEGF-R2. Viability was assessed by propidium iodide exclusion. Viable, low, side scatter singlets that were CD3-, 19-, and 33-negative were counted. While baseline levels of EPCs and ECs were similar among all subjects, young healthy subjects demonstrated significantly greater (p < 0.05) levels of progenitor cells (PCs) than older healthy and PAD subjects. Levels of EPCs and ECs tended to increase in all subjects after exercise;however,increases in PCs were only observed in young healthy and PAD subjects. Further, trends in the magnitude of change of subsets with exercise were most similar between young and PAD subjects. Our findings suggest that aging may reduce baseline circulating levels of PCs, but not EPCs or ECs, and that exercise-induced mobilization of subsets may differ depending on age and presence of PAD.

Key Words: aging • endothelium • exercise • peripheral arterial disease • progenitor cells

Vascular Medicine, Vol. 11, No. 4, 219-226 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1358863x06072213


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