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Gerber TJ, Fehr VCO, Oliveira SDS, Hu G, Dull R, Bonini MG, Beck-Schimmer B, Minshall RD. Sevoflurane Promotes Bactericidal Properties of Macrophages through Enhanced Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression in Male Mice. Anesthesiology 2019; 131:1301-1315. [PMID: 31658116 PMCID: PMC6856440 DOI: 10.1097/aln.0000000000002992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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BACKGROUND Sevoflurane with its antiinflammatory properties has shown to decrease mortality in animal models of sepsis. However, the underlying mechanism of its beneficial effect in this inflammatory scenario remains poorly understood. Macrophages play an important role in the early stage of sepsis as they are tasked with eliminating invading microbes and also attracting other immune cells by the release of proinflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-1β, interleukin-6, and tumor necrosis factor-α. Thus, the authors hypothesized that sevoflurane mitigates the proinflammatory response of macrophages, while maintaining their bactericidal properties. METHODS Murine bone marrow-derived macrophages were stimulated in vitro with lipopolysaccharide in the presence and absence of 2% sevoflurane. Expression of cytokines and inducible NO synthase as well as uptake of fluorescently labeled Escherichia coli (E. coli) were measured. The in vivo endotoxemia model consisted of an intraperitoneal lipopolysaccharide injection after anesthesia with either ketamine and xylazine or 4% sevoflurane. Male mice (n = 6 per group) were observed for a total of 20 h. During the last 30 min fluorescently labeled E. coli were intraperitoneally injected. Peritoneal cells were extracted by peritoneal lavage and inducible NO synthase expression as well as E. coli uptake by peritoneal macrophages was determined using flow cytometry. RESULTS In vitro, sevoflurane enhanced lipopolysaccharide-induced inducible NO synthase expression after 8 h by 466% and increased macrophage uptake of fluorescently labeled E. coli by 70% compared with vehicle-treated controls. Inhibiting inducible NO synthase expression pharmacologically abolished this increase in bacteria uptake. In vivo, inducible NO synthase expression was increased by 669% and phagocytosis of E. coli by 49% compared with the control group. CONCLUSIONS Sevoflurane enhances phagocytosis of bacteria by lipopolysaccharide-challenged macrophages in vitro and in vivo via an inducible NO synthase-dependent mechanism. Thus, sevoflurane potentiates bactericidal and antiinflammatory host-defense mechanisms in endotoxemia.
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- Thomas J Gerber
- From the Departments Anesthesiology (T.J.G., V.C.O.F., S.D.S.O., G.H., R.D., B.B.-S., R.D.M.) Medicine (M.G.B.) Pharmacology (R.D.M.), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Institute of Anesthesiology (V.C.O.F., B.B.-S.) the Institute of Physiology and Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (T.J.G., V.C.O.F., B.B.-S.), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Baig MS, Zaichick SV, Mao M, de Abreu AL, Bakhshi FR, Hart PC, Saqib U, Deng J, Chatterjee S, Block ML, Vogel SM, Malik AB, Consolaro MEL, Christman JW, Minshall RD, Gantner BN, Bonini MG. NOS1-derived nitric oxide promotes NF-κB transcriptional activity through inhibition of suppressor of cytokine signaling-1. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015; 212:1725-38. [PMID: 26324446 PMCID: PMC4577833 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20140654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2014] [Accepted: 08/06/2015] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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The NF-κB pathway is central to the regulation of inflammation. Here, we demonstrate that the low-output nitric oxide (NO) synthase 1 (NOS1 or nNOS) plays a critical role in the inflammatory response by promoting the activity of NF-κB. Specifically, NOS1-derived NO production in macrophages leads to proteolysis of suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 (SOCS1), alleviating its repression of NF-κB transcriptional activity. As a result, NOS1(-/-) mice demonstrate reduced cytokine production, lung injury, and mortality when subjected to two different models of sepsis. Isolated NOS1(-/-) macrophages demonstrate similar defects in proinflammatory transcription on challenge with Gram-negative bacterial LPS. Consistently, we found that activated NOS1(-/-) macrophages contain increased SOCS1 protein and decreased levels of p65 protein compared with wild-type cells. NOS1-dependent S-nitrosation of SOCS1 impairs its binding to p65 and targets SOCS1 for proteolysis. Treatment of NOS1(-/-) cells with exogenous NO rescues both SOCS1 degradation and stabilization of p65 protein. Point mutation analysis demonstrated that both Cys147 and Cys179 on SOCS1 are required for its NO-dependent degradation. These findings demonstrate a fundamental role for NOS1-derived NO in regulating TLR4-mediated inflammatory gene transcription, as well as the intensity and duration of the resulting host immune response.
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- Mirza Saqib Baig
- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607 Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607 Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607 Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607 Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607 Programa de Biociencias Aplicadas a Farmacia (PBF), Universidade Estadual de Maringa, Maringa 87020-900, Brazil
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607 Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 46202
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Programa de Biociencias Aplicadas a Farmacia (PBF), Universidade Estadual de Maringa, Maringa 87020-900, Brazil
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607 Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607 Department of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Anesthesiology, and Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL 60607 Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN 46202
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Mathew S, Bartels J, Banerjee I, Vodovotz Y. Global sensitivity analysis of a mathematical model of acute inflammation identifies nonlinear dependence of cumulative tissue damage on host interleukin-6 responses. J Theor Biol 2014; 358:132-48. [PMID: 24909493 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.05.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2014] [Revised: 05/22/2014] [Accepted: 05/23/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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The precise inflammatory role of the cytokine interleukin (IL)-6 and its utility as a biomarker or therapeutic target have been the source of much debate, presumably due to the complex pro- and anti-inflammatory effects of this cytokine. We previously developed a nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) model to explain the dynamics of endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide; LPS)-induced acute inflammation and associated whole-animal damage/dysfunction (a proxy for the health of the organism), along with the inflammatory mediators tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α, IL-6, IL-10, and nitric oxide (NO). The model was partially calibrated using data from endotoxemic C57Bl/6 mice. Herein, we investigated the sensitivity of the area under the damage curve (AUCD) to the 51 rate parameters of the ODE model for different levels of simulated LPS challenges using a global sensitivity approach called Random Sampling High Dimensional Model Representation (RS-HDMR). We explored sufficient parametric Monte Carlo samples to generate the variance-based Sobol' global sensitivity indices, and found that inflammatory damage was highly sensitive to the parameters affecting the activity of IL-6 during the different stages of acute inflammation. The AUCIL6 showed a bimodal distribution, with the lower peak representing healthy response and the higher peak representing sustained inflammation. Damage was minimal at low AUCIL6, giving rise to a healthy response. In contrast, intermediate levels of AUCIL6 resulted in high damage, and this was due to the insufficiency of damage recovery driven by anti-inflammatory responses from IL-10 and the activation of positive feedback sustained by IL-6. At high AUCIL6, damage recovery was interestingly restored in some population of simulated animals due to the NO-mediated anti-inflammatory responses. These observations suggest that the host's health status during acute inflammation depends in a nonlinear fashion on the magnitude of the inflammatory stimulus, on the host's propensity to produce IL-6, and on NO-mediated downstream responses.
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- Shibin Mathew
- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA; McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA
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- Immunetrics, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA 15203, USA; Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15219, USA.
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Liu DM, Sun BW, Sun ZW, Jin Q, Sun Y, Chen X. Suppression of inflammatory cytokine production and oxidative stress by CO-releasing molecules-liberated CO in the small intestine of thermally-injured mice. Acta Pharmacol Sin 2008; 29:838-46. [PMID: 18565282 DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7254.2008.00816.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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AIM To determine whether carbon monoxide (CO)-releasing molecules-liberated CO suppress inflammatory cytokine production and oxidative stress in the small intestine of burnt mice. METHODS Twenty-eight mice were assigned to 4 groups. The mice in the sham group (n=7) underwent sham thermal injury, whereas the mice in the burn group (n=7) received 15% total body surface area full-thickness thermal injury, the mice in the burn+CO-releasing molecules (CORM)-2 group (n=7) underwent the same injury with immediate administration of CORM-2 (8 mg/kg, i.v.), and the mice in the burn+inactivated CORM (iCORM)-2 group (n=7) underwent the same injury with immediate administration of iCORM-2. The levels of inflammatory cytokines in the tissue homogenates were measured by ELISA. The levels of malondialdehyde (MDA), nitric oxide (NO) and the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in the small intestine were also assessed. In the in vitro experiment, Caco-2 cells were stimulated by experimental mouse sera (50%, v/v) for 4 h. Subsequently, the levels of interleukin (IL)-8 and NO in the supernatants were assessed. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation in Caco-2 cells was also measured. RESULTS The treatment of burnt mice with CORM-2 significantly attenuated the levels of IL-1beta, TNF-alpha, MDA, and NO in tissue homogenates. This was accompanied by a decrease of iNOS expression. In parallel, the levels of IL-8, NO, and intracellular ROS generation in the supernatants of Caco-2 stimulated by the CORM-2-treated burnt mouse sera was markedly decreased. CONCLUSION CORM-released CO attenuates the production of inflammatory cytokines, prevents burn-induced ROS generation, and suppresses the oxidative stress in the small intestine of burnt mice by interfering with the protein expression of iNOS.
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- Dong-ming Liu
- Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, Affiliated Hospital, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212001, China
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Ma T, Kang C, Shao H, Qi Q, Hu W. Protective effects of ulinastatin on proliferation and cytokine release of splenocytes from rats with severe acute pancreatitis. Eur Surg Res 2006; 38:445-50. [PMID: 16912483 DOI: 10.1159/000095087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2006] [Accepted: 06/21/2006] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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AIM To clarify the contributions of ulinastatin to cellular immune responses in vivo, we examined the functional alterations of splenocytes and quantitatively evaluated the effects of ulinastatin on the splenocyte function during experimental severe acute pancreatitis. METHODS Severe acute pancreatitis was induced in rats by retrograde injection of 3% sodium deoxycholate. Thirty minutes after induction of pancreatitis, the rats were randomly assigned to four groups, receiving either saline or 50,000 U/kg of ulinastatin, respectively. Splenocytes were obtained aseptically and stimulated with concanavalin A for 24 h. Then the proliferative activity of cultured splenocytes was measured by using an MTT cellular proliferation assay, and the cytokine concentrations in the culture supernatants were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. RESULTS Upon stimulation, the release of interleukin-2, interleukin-10, and interferon-gamma was significantly decreased in the splenocytes from rats with pancreatitis as compared with those from sham operation and control groups. The splenocyte proliferation was also significantly suppressed in this group. In contrast, the proliferative as well as the cytokine-releasing capacities of the splenocytes from rats treated with ulinastatin were significantly increased as compared with those from rats with pancreatitis. CONCLUSIONS The deficiencies in proliferation and cytokine release in response to antigen stimulation demonstrated an anergic state of splenocytes during severe acute pancreatitis. Treatment with ulinastatin contributed to the recovery of the immune function by improving proliferative responses and cytokine release of splenocytes. These data suggest that a protease-modulating therapy may be an effective strategy for the treatment of immunosuppression induced by severe acute pancreatitis.
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- Tao Ma
- Department of Surgery, General Hospital of the Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
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Daniel T, Alexander M, Hubbard WJ, Chaudry IH, Choudhry MA, Schwacha MG. Nitric oxide contributes to the development of a post-injury Th2 T-cell phenotype and immune dysfunction. J Cell Physiol 2006; 208:418-27. [PMID: 16642464 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.20677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Severe injury induces immune dysfunction resulting in increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections. Previous studies from our laboratory have demonstrated that post-burn immunosuppression is mediated by nitric oxide (NO) due to the increased expression of macrophage inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). In contrast, others suggest that injury causes a phenotypic imbalance in the regulation of Th1- and Th2 immune responses. It is unclear whether or not these apparently divergent mediators of immunosuppression are interrelated. To study this, C57BL/6 mice were subjected to major burn injury and splenocytes were isolated 7 days later and stimulated with antiCD3. Burn injury induced NO-mediated suppression of proliferative responses that was reversed in the presence of the NOS inhibitor L-monomethyl-L-arginine and subsequently mimicked by the addition of the NO donor, S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine (SNAP). SNAP also dose-dependently suppressed IFN-gamma and IL-2 (Th1), but not IL-4 and IL-10 (Th2) production. Delaying the addition of SNAP to the cultures by 24 h prevented the suppression of IFN-gamma production. The Th2 shift in immune phenotype was independent of cGMP and apoptosis. The addition of SNAP to cell cultures also induced apoptosis, attenuated mitochondrial oxidative metabolism and induced mitochondrial membrane depolarization. However, these detrimental cellular effects of NO were observed only at supra-physiologic concentrations (>250 microM). In conclusion, these findings support the concept that NO induces suppression of cell-mediated immune responses by selective action on Th1 T cells, thereby promoting a Th2 response.
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- Tanjanika Daniel
- Department of Surgery, Center for Surgical Research, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA
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