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Previously published, off-target effects of statins on skeletal smooth muscle function have linked structural characteristics within this drug class to myopathic effects. However, the effect of these drugs on lymphatic vascular smooth muscle cell function, and by proxy dietary cholesterol uptake, by the intestinal lymphatic network has not been investigated. Several of the most widely prescribed statins (Atorvastatin, Pravastatin, Lovastatin, and Simvastatin) were tested for their in-situ effects on smooth muscle contractility in rat mesenteric collecting lymphatic vessels. Lovastatin and Simvastatin had a concentration-dependent effect of initially increasing vessel contraction frequency before flatlining the vessel, a phenomenon which was found to be a lactone-ring dependent phenomenon and could be ameliorated through use of Lovastatin- or Simvastatin-hydroxyacid (HA). Simvastatin treatment further resulted in mitochondrial depolymerization within primary-isolated rat lymphatic smooth muscle cells (LMCs) while Lovastatin was found to be acting in a mitochondrial-independent manner, increasing the function of RhoKinase. Lovastatin’s effect on RhoKinase was investigated through pharmacological testing and in vitro analysis of increased MLC and MYPT1 phosphorylation within primary isolated LMCs. Finally, acute in vivo treatment of rats with Lovastatin, but not Lovastatin-HA, resulted in a significantly decreased dietary lipid absorption in vivo through induced disfunction of mesenteric lymph uptake and trafficking.

international journal of molecular sciences

Off-Target Effect of Lovastatin Disrupts Dietary Lipid Uptake and Dissemination through Pro-Drug Inhibition of the Mesenteric Lymphatic Smooth Muscle Cell Contractile Apparatus