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Endotoxin-induced acute lung injury is enhanced in rats with spontaneous hypertension.

Authors: Liu, DD  Hsu, YH  Chen, HI 
Citation: Liu DD, etal., Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol. 2007 Jan-Feb;34(1-2):61-9.
RGD ID: 1626625
Pubmed: PMID:17201737   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1111/j.1440-1681.2007.04526.x   (Journal Full-text)

1. Acute lung injury (ALI), or acute respiratory distress syndrome, is a major cause of mortality in endotoxaemia. The present study tested whether the endotoxaemia-induced changes and associated ALI were enhanced in rats with established hypertension and to examine the possible mechanisms involved. 2. Fifty spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and the same number of normotensive Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats, aged 12-15 weeks, were used. The experiments were performed in conscious, unanaesthetized rats. Endotoxaemia was produced by intravenous lipopolysaccharide (LPS; 10 mg/kg). N(G)-Nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME; 10 mg/kg, i.v.), L-N(6)-(1-iminoethyl)-lysine (L-Nil; 5 mg/kg, i.v.) and 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1; 5 mg/kg, i.v.) were given 5 min before LPS to observe the effects of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibition and nitric oxide (NO) donation. 3. We monitored arterial pressure and heart rate and evaluated ALI by determining the lung weight/bodyweight ratio, lung weight gain, leakage of Evans blue dye, the protein concentration in bronchoalveolar lavage and histopathological examination. Plasma nitrate/nitrite, methyl guanidine, pro-inflammatory cytokines, including tumour necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-1beta, and lung tissue cGMP were determined. Expression of mRNA for inducible and endothelial NOS was examined using reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. 4. Lipopolysaccharide caused systemic hypotension, ALI and increases in plasma nitrate/nitrite, methyl guanidine, pro-inflammatory cytokines and lung cGMP content. The LPS-induced changes were greater in SHR than in WKY rats. Pretreatment with L-NAME or L-Nil attenuated, whereas the NO donor SIN-1 aggravated, the endotoxin-induced changes. 5. In conclusion, rats with genetic hypertension are more susceptible to endotoxaemia and this results in a greater extent of ALI compared with normotensive WKY rats.



RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View

  
Object SymbolSpeciesTermQualifierEvidenceWithNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
IL1BHumanEndotoxemia  ISOIl1b (Rattus norvegicus)protein:increased expression:plasmaRGD 
Il1bRatEndotoxemia  IEP protein:increased expression:plasmaRGD 
Il1bMouseEndotoxemia  ISOIl1b (Rattus norvegicus)protein:increased expression:plasmaRGD 

Gene Ontology Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View

Biological Process

  
Object SymbolSpeciesTermQualifierEvidenceWithNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
Il1bRatresponse to lipopolysaccharide  IEP  RGD 

Cellular Component

  
Object SymbolSpeciesTermQualifierEvidenceWithNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
Il1bRatextracellular space  IDA  RGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Il1b  (interleukin 1 beta)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Il1b  (interleukin 1 beta)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
IL1B  (interleukin 1 beta)


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