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Henriques I, Padilha GA, Huhle R, Wierzchon C, Miranda PJB, Ramos IP, Rocha N, Cruz FF, Santos RS, de Oliveira MV, Souza SA, Goldenberg RC, Luiz RR, Pelosi P, de Abreu MG, Silva PL, Rocco PRM. Comparison between Variable and Conventional Volume-Controlled Ventilation on Cardiorespiratory Parameters in Experimental Emphysema. Front Physiol 2016; 7:277. [PMID: 27445862 PMCID: PMC4928149 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2016.00277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2016] [Accepted: 06/20/2016] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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Emphysema is characterized by loss of lung tissue elasticity and destruction of structures supporting alveoli and capillaries. The impact of mechanical ventilation strategies on ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI) in emphysema is poorly defined. New ventilator strategies should be developed to minimize VILI in emphysema. The present study was divided into two protocols: (1) characterization of an elastase-induced emphysema model in rats and identification of the time point of greatest cardiorespiratory impairment, defined as a high specific lung elastance associated with large right ventricular end-diastolic area; and (2) comparison between variable (VV) and conventional volume-controlled ventilation (VCV) on lung mechanics and morphometry, biological markers, and cardiac function at that time point. In the first protocol, Wistar rats (n = 62) received saline (SAL) or porcine pancreatic elastase (ELA) intratracheally once weekly for 4 weeks, respectively. Evaluations were performed 1, 3, 5, or 8 weeks after the last intratracheal instillation of saline or elastase. After identifying the time point of greatest cardiorespiratory impairment, an additional 32 Wistar rats were randomized into the SAL and ELA groups and then ventilated with VV or VCV (n = 8/group) [tidal volume (VT) = 6 mL/kg, positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) = 3 cmH2O, fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) = 0.4] for 2 h. VV was applied on a breath-to-breath basis as a sequence of randomly generated VT values (mean VT = 6 mL/kg), with a 30% coefficient of variation. Non-ventilated (NV) SAL and ELA animals were used for molecular biology analysis. The time point of greatest cardiorespiratory impairment, was observed 5 weeks after the last elastase instillation. At this time point, interleukin (IL)-6, cytokine-induced neutrophil chemoattractant (CINC)-1, amphiregulin, angiopoietin (Ang)-2, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) mRNA levels were higher in ELA compared to SAL. In ELA animals, VV reduced respiratory system elastance, alveolar collapse, and hyperinflation compared to VCV, without significant differences in gas exchange, but increased right ventricular diastolic area. Interleukin-6 mRNA expression was higher in VCV and VV than NV, while surfactant protein-D was increased in VV compared to NV. In conclusion, VV improved lung function and morphology and reduced VILI, but impaired right cardiac function in this model of elastase induced-emphysema.
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- Isabela Henriques
- Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Pulmonary Engineering Group, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden Dresden, Germany
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- Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro, Brazil; National Center for Structural Biology and Bioimaging, Federal University of Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro, Brazil; Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Biomedical Institute, Fluminense Federal UniversityNiterói, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- National Center for Structural Biology and Bioimaging, Federal University of Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro, Brazil; Nuclear Medicine Service, Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital, Federal University of Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Institute of Public Health Studies, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics, IRCCS AOU San Martino IST, University of Genoa Genoa, Italy
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- Pulmonary Engineering Group, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Therapy, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden Dresden, Germany
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- Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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- Laboratory of Pulmonary Investigation, Carlos Chagas Filho Biophysics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Porzionato A, Guidolin D, Macchi V, Sarasin G, Grisafi D, Tortorella C, Dedja A, Zaramella P, De Caro R. Fractal analysis of alveolarization in hyperoxia-induced rat models of bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2016; 310:L680-8. [DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00231.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2015] [Accepted: 02/02/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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No papers are available about potentiality of fractal analysis in quantitative assessment of alveolarization in bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Thus, we here performed a comparative analysis between fractal [fractal dimension ( D) and lacunarity] and stereological [mean linear intercept ( Lm), total volume of alveolar air spaces, total number of alveoli, mean alveolar volume, total volume and surface area of alveolar septa, and mean alveolar septal thickness] parameters in experimental hyperoxia-induced models of BPD. At birth, rats were distributed between the following groups: 1) rats raised in ambient air for 2 wk; 2) rats exposed to 60% oxygen for 2 wk; 3) rats raised in normoxia for 6 wk; and 4) rats exposed to 60% hyperoxia for 2 wk and to room air for further 4 wk. Normoxic 6-wk rats showed increased D and decreased lacunarity with respect to normoxic 2-wk rats, together with changes in all stereological parameters except for mean alveolar volume. Hyperoxia-exposed 2-wk rats showed significant changes only in total number of alveoli, mean alveolar volume, and lacunarity with respect to equal-in-age normoxic rats. In the comparison between 6-wk rats, the hyperoxia-exposed group showed decreased D and increased lacunarity, together with changes in all stereological parameters except for septal thickness. Analysis of receiver operating characteristic curves showed a comparable discriminatory power of D, lacunarity, and total number of alveoli; Lmand mean alveolar volume were less discriminative. D and lacunarity did not show significant changes when different segmentation thresholds were applied, suggesting that the fractal approach may be fit to automatic image analysis.
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- Andrea Porzionato
- Section of Human Anatomy, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; and
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- Section of Human Anatomy, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; and
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- Section of Human Anatomy, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; and
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- Section of Human Anatomy, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; and
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Section of Human Anatomy, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; and
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Women's and Children's Health, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Section of Human Anatomy, Department of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; and
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Brandenberger C, Ochs M, Mühlfeld C. Assessing particle and fiber toxicology in the respiratory system: the stereology toolbox. Part Fibre Toxicol 2015; 12:35. [PMID: 26521139 PMCID: PMC4628359 DOI: 10.1186/s12989-015-0110-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2015] [Accepted: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The inhalation of airborne particles can lead to pathological changes in the respiratory tract. For this reason, toxicology studies on effects of inhalable particles and fibers often include an assessment of histopathological alterations in the upper respiratory tract, the trachea and/or the lungs. Conventional pathological evaluations are usually performed by scoring histological lesions in order to obtain "quantitative" information and an estimation of the severity of the lesion. This approach not only comprises a potential subjective bias, depending on the examiner's judgment, but also conveys the risk that mild alterations escape the investigator's eye. The most accurate way of obtaining unbiased quantitative information about three-dimensional (3D) features of tissues, cells, or organelles from two-dimensional physical or optical sections is by means of stereology, the gold standard of image-based morphometry. Nevertheless, it can be challenging to express histopathological changes by morphometric parameters such as volume, surface, length or number only. In this review we therefore provide an overview on different histopathological lesions in the respiratory tract associated with particle and fiber toxicology and on how to apply stereological methods in order to correctly quantify and interpret histological lesions in the respiratory tract. The article further aims at pointing out common pitfalls in quantitative histopathology and at providing some suggestions on how respiratory toxicology can be improved by stereology. Thus, we hope that this article will stimulate scientists in particle and fiber toxicology research to implement stereological techniques in their studies, thereby promoting an unbiased 3D assessment of pathological lesions associated with particle exposure.
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- Christina Brandenberger
- Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.
- Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH (From Regenerative Biology to Reconstructive Therapy), Hannover, Germany.
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- Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.
- Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH (From Regenerative Biology to Reconstructive Therapy), Hannover, Germany.
- Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany.
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- Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.
- Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH (From Regenerative Biology to Reconstructive Therapy), Hannover, Germany.
- Biomedical Research in Endstage and Obstructive Lung Disease Hannover (BREATH), Member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Hannover, Germany.
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Lung structure and function in elastase-treated rats: A follow-up study. Respir Physiol Neurobiol 2015; 215:13-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resp.2015.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2015] [Revised: 04/08/2015] [Accepted: 04/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Andrade CF, Fontena E, Cardoso PF, Pereira RB, Grun G, Forgiarini LF, Moreira JS, Felicetti JC. Peritoneal Free Autologous Fat Graft for the Control of Pulmonary Air Leaks in Emphysematous Rat Lungs. Ann Thorac Surg 2014; 98:271-6. [DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.03.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2012] [Revised: 03/10/2014] [Accepted: 03/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Mühlfeld C, Ochs M. Quantitative microscopy of the lung: a problem-based approach. Part 2: stereological parameters and study designs in various diseases of the respiratory tract. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 2013; 305:L205-21. [PMID: 23709622 DOI: 10.1152/ajplung.00427.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Design-based stereology provides efficient methods to obtain valuable quantitative information of the respiratory tract in various diseases. However, the choice of the most relevant parameters in a specific disease setting has to be deduced from the present pathobiological knowledge. Often it is difficult to express the pathological alterations by interpretable parameters in terms of volume, surface area, length, or number. In the second part of this companion review article, we analyze the present pathophysiological knowledge about acute lung injury, diffuse parenchymal lung diseases, emphysema, pulmonary hypertension, and asthma to come up with recommendations for the disease-specific application of stereological principles for obtaining relevant parameters. Worked examples with illustrative images are used to demonstrate the work flow, estimation procedure, and calculation and to facilitate the practical performance of equivalent analyses.
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- Christian Mühlfeld
- Institute of Functional and Applied Anatomy, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
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Tolnai J, Szabari MV, Albu G, Maár BA, Parameswaran H, Bartolák-Suki E, Suki B, Hantos Z. Functional and morphological assessment of early impairment of airway function in a rat model of emphysema. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2012; 112:1932-9. [PMID: 22442024 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00587.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The aim of this study was to evaluate airway structure-function relations in elastase-induced emphysema in rats. Sprague-Dawley rats were treated intratracheally with 50 IU porcine pancreatic elastase (PPE, n = 8) or saline (controls, n = 6). Six weeks later, lung volumes [functional residual capacity (FRC), residual volume (RV), and total lung capacity (TLC)] and low-frequency impedance parameters (Newtonian resistance, R(N); tissue damping; tissue elastance, H) were measured, and tracheal sounds were recorded during slow inflation to TLC following in vivo degassing. The lungs were fixed and stained for standard morphometry, elastin, and collagen. In the PPE group, FRC and RV were higher [4.53 ± 0.7 (SD) vs. 3.28 ± 0.45 ml; P = 0.003 and 1.06 ± 0.35 vs. 0.69 ± 0.18 ml; P = 0.036, respectively], and H was smaller in the PPE-treated rats than in the controls (1,344 ± 216 vs. 2,178 ± 305 cmH(2)O/l; P < 0.001), whereas there was no difference in R(N). The average number of crackles per inflation was similar in the two groups; however, the crackle size distributions were different and the lower knee of the pressure-volume curves was higher in the PPE group. Microscopic images revealed different alveolar size distributions but similar bronchial diameters in the two groups. The treatment caused a slight but significant decrease in the numbers of alveolar attachments, no difference in elastin and slightly increased mean level and heterogeneity of collagen in the bronchial walls. These results suggest that tissue destruction did not affect the conventionally assessed airway resistance in this emphysema model, whereas the alterations in the recruitment dynamics can be an early manifestation of impaired airway function.
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- J Tolnai
- Department of Medical Physics and Informatics, Universityof Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
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Raith M, Schaal K, Koslowski R, Fehrenbach H, Poets CF, Schleicher E, Bernhard W. Effects of recombinant human keratinocyte growth factor on surfactant, plasma, and liver phospholipid homeostasis in hyperoxic neonatal rats. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2012; 112:1317-28. [PMID: 22323656 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00887.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Respiratory distress and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) are major problems in preterm infants that are often addressed by glucocorticoid treatment and increased oxygen supply, causing catabolic and injurious side effects. Recombinant human keratinocyte growth factor (rhKGF) is noncatabolic and antiapoptotic and increases surfactant pools in immature lungs. Despite its usefulness in injured neonatal lungs, the mechanisms of improved surfactant homeostasis in vivo and systemic effects on lipid homeostasis are unknown. We therefore exposed newborn rats to 85% vs. 21% oxygen and treated them systemically with rhKGF for 48 h before death at 7 days. We determined type II pneumocyte (PN-II) proliferation, surfactant protein (SP) mRNA expression, and the pulmonary metabolism of individual phosphatidylcholine (PC) species using [D(9)-methyl]choline and tandem mass spectrometry. In addition, we assessed liver and plasma lipid metabolism, addressing PC synthesis de novo, the liver-specific phosphatidylethanolamine methyl transferase (PEMT) pathway, and triglyceride concentrations. rhKGF was found to maintain PN-II proliferation and increased SP-B/C expression and surfactant PC in both normoxic and hyperoxic lungs. We found increased total PC together with decreased [D(9)-methyl]choline enrichment, suggesting decreased turnover rather than increased secretion and synthesis as the underlying mechanism. In the liver, rhKGF increased PC synthesis, both de novo and via PEMT, underlining the organotypic differences of rhKGF actions on lipid metabolism. rhKGF increased the hepatic secretion of newly synthesized polyunsaturated PC, indicating improved systemic supply with choline and essential fatty acids. We suggest that rhKGF has potential as a therapeutic agent in neonates by improving pulmonary and systemic PC homeostasis.
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- Marco Raith
- Department of Neonatology, Faculty of Medicine, Eberhard-Karls-University, Calwer Strasse 7, Tübingen, Germany
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Gesche J, Fehrenbach H, Koslowski R, Ohler FM, Pynn CJ, Griese M, Poets CF, Bernhard W. rhKGF stimulates lung surfactant production in neonatal rats in vivo. Pediatr Pulmonol 2011; 46:882-95. [PMID: 21462359 DOI: 10.1002/ppul.21443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2010] [Revised: 02/07/2011] [Accepted: 02/09/2011] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Surfactant deficiency and bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), major obstacles in preterm infants, are addressed with pre- and postnatal glucocorticoids which also evoke harmful catabolic side-effects. Keratinocyte growth factor (KGF) accelerates surfactant production in fetal type II pneumocytes (PN-II), protects epithelia from injury and is deficient in lungs developing BPD, highlighting its potential efficacy in neonates. Neonatal rats were treated with recombinant human (rh)KGF, betamethasone, or their combination for 48 hr prior to sacrifice after which body weight, surfactant, and tissue phosphatidylcholines (PC) were investigated at postnatal d3, d7, d15, and d21. Pneumocyte proliferation, surfactant protein (SP) expression and SP-B/C in lung lavage fluid (LLF) were also determined at d7 and d21 to identify broader surfactant changes occurring at the beginning and end of the initial alveolarization phase. While all treatments increased secreted surfactant PC, BM compromised animal growth whereas rhKGF did not. At d3 rhKGF was more effective in male compared to female rats. Single treatments became less effective towards d21. Neither treatment altered PC composition in LLF. BM inhibited PN-II proliferation and increased surfactant PCs at the expense of tissue PCs. rhKGF however increased surfactant PCs without decreasing other PC species. Whereas SP-B/C gene expression was induced by all treatments, the changes in secreted SP-B/C mirrored those observed for surfactant PC. Our results encourage investigation of the mechanisms by which rhKGF improves surfactant homoeostasis, and detailed examination of its efficacy in neonatal lung injury models with a view to implementing it as a non-catabolic surfactant-increasing therapeutic in neonatal intensive care.
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- Jens Gesche
- Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neonatology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, Germany
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