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Safabakhsh M, Imani H, Shahinfar H, Mohammadpour M, Rohani P, Shab-Bidar S. Efficacy of dietary supplements on mortality and clinical outcomes in adults with sepsis and septic shock: A systematic review and network meta-analysis. Clin Nutr 2024; 43:1299-1307. [PMID: 38663051 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2024.03.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2024] [Revised: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/31/2024]
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AIM The aim of this network meta-analysis (NMA) was to investigate the effects of different dietary supplements on the mortality and clinical status of adults with sepsis. METHODS We searched PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library Central Register of Controlled Trials until February 2023. The inclusion criteria were: 1) randomized controlled trials (RCT)s; 2) adults suffering sepsis or septic shock; 3) evaluation of short- or long-mortality; and 4) publications between 1994 and 2023. The general information of studies and details of interventions were extracted. The primary outcome was short-term mortality (<90 days), and the secondary outcomes were long-term mortality (≥90 days), length of ICU and hospital stays, and duration of mechanical ventilation (MV). The risk of bias of RCTs was assessed using the Cochrane risk of bias tool 2 (ROB2). A random effect NMA was performed to rank the effect of each intervention using a frequentist approach. RESULTS Finally, 56 RCTs with 5957 participants met the criteria. Approximately, one-third of RCTs were low risk of bias. NMA analysis revealed that there was no treatment more effective in short- or long-term mortality than control or other interventions, except for magnesium (RR: 0.33, 95% CI: 0.14, 0.79; GRADE = low) and vitamin C (RR: 0.81, 95% CI: 0.67, 0.99; low certainty evidence), which had beneficial effects on short-term mortality. Moreover, eicosapentaenoic acid, gamma-linolenic acid, and antioxidants (EPA + GLA + AOs) combination was the most effective, and magnesium, vitamin D and vitamin C were the other effective approaches in terms of duration of MV, and ICU length of stay. There was no beneficial dietary supplement for hospital stay in these patients. CONCLUSIONS In septic patients, none of the dietary supplements had a substantial effect on mortality except for magnesium and vitamin C, which were linked to lower short-term mortality with low certainty of evidence. Further investigation into high-quality studies with the use of dietary supplements for sepsis should be highly discouraged.
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- Maryam Safabakhsh
- Department of Clinical Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Division of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Pediatrics Center of Excellence, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Research Center, Research Institute for Children Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran; Sports Medicine Research Center, Neuroscience Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran.
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Ding X, Tong R, Song H, Sun G, Wang D, Liang H, Sun J, Cui Y, Zhang X, Liu S, Cheng M, Sun T. Identification of metabolomics-based prognostic prediction models for ICU septic patients. Int Immunopharmacol 2022; 108:108841. [DOI: 10.1016/j.intimp.2022.108841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Revised: 05/02/2022] [Accepted: 05/03/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Development and validation of a novel sepsis biomarker based on amino acid profiling. Clin Nutr 2021; 40:3668-3676. [PMID: 34130013 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2021] [Revised: 05/12/2021] [Accepted: 05/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Sepsis is a potentially fatal condition influenced by pathogens and host factors. Current sepsis biomarkers such as white blood cell count and C-reactive protein and procalcitonin levels show unsatisfactory performance in terms of diagnostic sensitivity and specificity in clinical practice. Thus, we developed and validated a new sepsis biomarker based on amino acid profiling. METHODS We used two independent groups. The training and validation groups included 161 and 22 healthy controls, 123 and 50 patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome, and 115 and 45 patients with sepsis, respectively. Using mass spectrometry, we measured and analyzed serum amino acid levels to select candidate amino acids that could differentiate sepsis from other conditions. Then, several possible multivariate indexes were developed by generating formulae with different combinations of candidate amino acids. The formula showing the best performance was selected and validated further. RESULTS Kynurenine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, arginine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, and glutamine were selected as candidate amino acids. Ten possible formulae were generated, and the formula with the highest diagnostic performance, which included kynurenine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, and arginine, was selected. In the validation group, the area under the receiving operating characteristic curve of the selected multivariate index (0.931) was similar to that of procalcitonin (0.945). Moreover, the generated multivariate index showed potential as a prognostic marker. CONCLUSIONS Serum amino acid composition in patients with sepsis differs significantly from that in healthy individuals and patients with inflammation only. The newly developed multivariate index is expected to be implementable as a sepsis biomarker in clinical practice in the near future.
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Micronutrients in Sepsis and COVID-19: A Narrative Review on What We Have Learned and What We Want to Know in Future Trials. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2021; 57:medicina57050419. [PMID: 33925791 PMCID: PMC8146527 DOI: 10.3390/medicina57050419] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2021] [Revised: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/21/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Sepsis remains the leading cause of mortality in hospitalized patients, contributing to 1 in every 2–3 deaths. From a pathophysiological view, in the recent definition, sepsis has been defined as the result of a complex interaction between host response and the infecting organism, resulting in life-threatening organ dysfunction, depending on microcirculatory derangement, cellular hypoxia/dysoxia driven by hypotension and, potentially, death. The high energy expenditure driven by a high metabolic state induced by the host response may rapidly lead to micronutrient depletion. This deficiency can result in alterations in normal energy homeostasis, free radical damage, and immune system derangement. In critically ill patients, micronutrients are still relegated to an ancillary role in the whole treatment, and always put in a second-line place or, frequently, neglected. Only some micronutrients have attracted the attention of a wider audience, and some trials, even large ones, have tested their use, with controversial results. The present review will address this topic, including the recent advancement in the study of vitamin D and protocols based on vitamin C and other micronutrients, to explore an update in the setting of sepsis, gain some new insights applicable to COVID-19 patients, and to contribute to a pathophysiological definition of the potential role of micronutrients that will be helpful in future dedicated trials.
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David OM, Olanlokun JO, Owoniyi BE, Ayeni M, Ebenezer O, Koorbanally NA. Studies on the mitochondrial, immunological and inflammatory effects of solvent fractions of Diospyros mespiliformis Hochst in Plasmodium berghei-infected mice. Sci Rep 2021; 11:6941. [PMID: 33767260 PMCID: PMC7994402 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-85790-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2020] [Accepted: 03/05/2021] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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The use of medicinal plants in the treatment of malaria is gaining global attention due to their efficacy and cost effectiveness. This study evaluated the bioactivity-guided antiplasmodial efficacy and immunomodulatory effects of solvent fractions of Diospyros mespiliformis in mice infected with a susceptible strain of Plasmodium berghei (NK 65). The crude methanol extract of the stem of D. mespiliformis (DM) was partitioned between n-hexane, dichloromethane, ethyl acetate and methanol. Male Swiss mice (20 ± 2 g) infected with P. berghei were grouped and treated with vehicle (10 mL/kg, control), Artemether lumefantrine (10 mg/kg), 100, 200 and 400 mg/kg of n-hexane, dichloromethane, ethyl acetate and methanol fractions of D. mespiliformis for seven days. Blood was obtained for heme and hemozoin contents while serum was obtained for inflammatory cytokines and immunoglobulins G and M assessments. Liver mitochondria were isolated for mitochondrial permeability transition (mPT), mitochondrial F1F0 ATPase (mATPase) and lipid peroxidation (mLPO) assays. The GC-MS was used to identify the compounds present in the most potent fraction. The dichloromethane fraction had the highest parasite clearance and improved hematological indices relative to the drug control. The heme values increased, while the hemozoin content significantly (P < 0.05) decreased compared with the drug control. The highest dose of HF and MF opened the mPT pore while the reversal effects of DF on mPT, mATPase and mLPO were dose-dependent. The levels of IgG, IgM and TNFα in the DF group were significantly higher than the drug control, while the IL-1β and IL-6 values did not vary linearly with the dose. Lupeol and Stigmastan-3,5-diene were the most abundant phytochemicals in the DF. The outcome of this study showed that the DF has immunomodulatory effects in infected mice, reduced proliferation of the malaria parasite and thus protect liver cells.
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- Laboratories for Biomembrane Research and Biotechnology, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
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- Department of Microbiology, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
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- School of Chemistry and Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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Hsiao SY, Kung CT, Su CM, Lai YR, Huang CC, Tsai NW, Wang HC, Cheng BC, Su YJ, Lin WC, Chiang YF, Lu CH. Impact of oxidative stress on treatment outcomes in adult patients with sepsis: A prospective study. Medicine (Baltimore) 2020; 99:e20872. [PMID: 32590792 PMCID: PMC7328964 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000020872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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PURPOSE Oxidative stress has been shown to reflect on the development of sepsis and disease severity. In the present study, we evaluated the effects of increased levels of oxidative stress and decreased antioxidant coactivity in patients with sepsis, and the importance of oxidative stress on treatment outcomes. METHODS Biomarkers of oxidative stress (thiobarbituric acid-reactive substances [TBARS]) and antioxidant capacity (glutathione peroxidase [GPx] and glutathione content [thiol]) were prospectively evaluated along with biochemical and clinical data in 100 patients with sepsis on days 1, 4, and 7 after admission. RESULTS The TBARS level of the non-survivor group was significantly higher than that of the survivor group on day 1 and day 4 and negatively correlated with thiol upon admission. However, thiol was positively correlated with lactate concentration. The TBARS and lactate levels upon admission were independent predictors of fatality. CONCLUSIONS We conclude that a TBARS cut-off value of 18.30 μM can be used to predict fatality, and an increase in the TBARS concentration by 1 μM will increase the fatality rate by 0.94%. In the panel of biomarkers, the TBARS assay can be considered as a prognostic biomarker for the treatment of patients with sepsis.
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- Department of Neurology
- Department of Biological Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Internal Medicine
- Department of Biological Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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- Department of Radiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine
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- Department of Neurology
- Department of Biological Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
- Department of Neurology, Xiamen Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Xiamen, Fujian, China
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Identification of Potential Transcriptional Biomarkers Differently Expressed in Both S. aureus- and E. coli-Induced Sepsis via Integrated Analysis. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2019; 2019:2487921. [PMID: 31093495 PMCID: PMC6481126 DOI: 10.1155/2019/2487921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Revised: 02/13/2019] [Accepted: 03/25/2019] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Sepsis is a critical, complex medical condition, and the major causative pathogens of sepsis are both Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and Escherichia coli (E. coli). Genome-wide studies identify differentially expressed genes for sepsis. However, the results for the identification of DEGs are inconsistent or discrepant among different studies because of heterogeneity of specimen sources, various data processing methods, or different backgrounds of the samples. To identify potential transcriptional biomarkers that are differently expressed in S. aureus- and E. coli-induced sepsis, we have analyzed four microarray datasets from GEO database and integrated results with bioinformatics tools. 42 and 54 DEGs were identified in both S. aureus and E. coli samples from any three different arrays, respectively. Hierarchical clustering revealed dramatic differences between control and sepsis samples. GO functional annotations suggested that DEGs in the S. aureus group were mainly involved in the responses of both defense and immune regulation, but DEGs in the E. coli group were mainly related to the regulation of endopeptidase activity involved in the apoptotic signaling pathway. Although KEGG showed inflammatory bowel disease in the E. coli group, the KEGG pathway analysis showed that these DEGs were mainly involved in the tumor necrosis factor signaling pathway, fructose metabolism, and mannose metabolism in both S. aureus- and E. coli-induced sepsis. Eight common genes were identified between sepsis patients with either S. aureus or E. coli infection and controls in this study. All the candidate genes were further validated to be differentially expressed by an ex-vivo human blood model, and the relative expression of these genes was performed by qPCR. The qPCR results suggest that GK and PFKFB3 might contribute to the progression of S. aureus-induced sepsis, and CEACAM1, TNFAIP6, PSTPIP2, SOCS3, and IL18RAP might be closely linked with E. coli-induced sepsis. These results provide new viewpoints for the pathogenesis of both sepsis and pathogen identification.
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This paper describes a new model for the oxygen-haemoglobin dissociation curve in humans. The model is based on the known structural alterations that occur in the quaternary haemoglobin molecule during oxygenation and deoxygenation. The two alternative structures, tense and relaxed, are described using hyperbolic tangent curves and linked with a probability function to obtain the completed mathematical description of the oxygen-haemoglobin dissociation curve. Model accuracy is assessed by a bias/precision analysis of calculated logit (S) and P50 against gold standard data. A mechanism for the transition between the two structures involving the chloride ion as a major allosteric effector is proposed. Results were analysed against the Siggaard-Andersen model for bias, precision and calculated P50 in four saturation ranges—0.00<SO 2< 1.00, 0.20<SO 2< 0.80, 0.90<SO 2< 1.00 and 0.97<SO 2< 1.00. In each range except for 0.20<SO 2 <0.80, bias, precision and calculated P50 for the new model are significantly better (P<0.05). Analysis of calculated P50 across the entire saturation range revealed significant drift out of the acceptable range in the Siggaard-Andersen model for SO 2 >0.92. The new model remained within tolerance across the saturation range 0.00<SO 2 <1.00. The new model is significantly more accurate than the popular Siggaard-Andersen model, particularly in the range SO 2> 0.90.
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- C. Anstey
- Intensive Care Unit, Nambour Hospital, Nambour, Queensland
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Lu J, Wei Z, Jiang H, Cheng L, Chen Q, Chen M, Yan J, Sun Z. Lactate dehydrogenase is associated with 28-day mortality in patients with sepsis: a retrospective observational study. J Surg Res 2018; 228:314-321. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2018.03.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2017] [Revised: 02/20/2018] [Accepted: 03/15/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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A review of micronutrients in sepsis: the role of thiamine, l-carnitine, vitamin C, selenium and vitamin D. Nutr Res Rev 2018; 31:281-290. [PMID: 29984680 DOI: 10.1017/s0954422418000124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Sepsis is defined as the dysregulated host response to an infection resulting in life-threatening organ dysfunction. The metabolic demand from inefficiencies in anaerobic metabolism, mitochondrial and cellular dysfunction, increased cellular turnover, and free-radical damage result in the increased focus of micronutrients in sepsis as they play a pivotal role in these processes. In the present review, we will evaluate the potential role of micronutrients in sepsis, specifically, thiamine, l-carnitine, vitamin C, Se and vitamin D. Each micronutrient will be reviewed in a similar fashion, discussing its major role in normal physiology, suspected role in sepsis, use as a biomarker, discussion of the major basic science and human studies, and conclusion statement. Based on the current available data, we conclude that thiamine may be considered in all septic patients at risk for thiamine deficiency and l-carnitine and vitamin C to those in septic shock. Clinical trials are currently underway which may provide greater insight into the role of micronutrients in sepsis and validate standard utilisation.
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Tao X, Li K, Wang J, Zhang L, Li W, Kan B, Yu G, Jian X. Tetramethylpyrazine can ameliorate hepatocellular mitochondrial dysfunction by decreasing the inflammatory response and increasing AQP8 protein expression in septic rats. EUR J INFLAMM 2017. [DOI: 10.1177/1721727x17731003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Sepsis, which could lead to mitochondrial dysfunction and cellular energy loss, always induces acute liver injury and has a high mortality rate. Tetramethylpyrazine (TMP) is an active extract from the Chinese herb Ligusticum chuanxiong and exhibits anti-sepsis activity. In this study, a rat sepsis model was first established via cecal ligation and puncture (CLP). Then, 48 Sprague Dawley male rats were randomly divided into four groups (12 rats in each group): control group (C), sepsis group (S), TMP treatment group (T), and TMP prevention group (P). Serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST), serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT), mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase (mAST), and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) levels and mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) were measured and used as indicators of hepatic dysfunction severity and mitochondrial function. In addition, the activities of Na+-K+-ATPase, Mg2+-ATPase, Ca2+-ATPase, and Ca2+-Mg2+-ATPase in the mitochondrial membrane, the expression level of AQP8 and some inflammatory factors, and the level of oxidative stress were measured to explore potential mechanisms. We found that AQP8 accepts signals from inflammatory factors upon stimulation and during various infections, and low AQP8 expression levels could result in further downstream mitochondrial dysfunction. In conclusion, our data demonstrated that TMP could ameliorate hepatocellular mitochondrial dysfunction by decreasing the inflammatory response and increasing AQP8 protein expression.
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- Xiaogen Tao
- Department of Poisoning and Occupational Diseases, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China
- Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Anhui Provincial Hospital Affiliated Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- School of Pharmacy, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Poisoning and Occupational Diseases, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Poisoning and Occupational Diseases, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Poisoning and Occupational Diseases, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Gong Y, Lan H, Yu Z, Wang M, Wang S, Chen Y, Rao H, Li J, Sheng Z, Shao J. Blockage of glycolysis by targeting PFKFB3 alleviates sepsis-related acute lung injury via suppressing inflammation and apoptosis of alveolar epithelial cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2017; 491:522-529. [PMID: 28576491 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.05.173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2017] [Accepted: 05/29/2017] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Sepsis-related acute lung injury (ALI) is characterized by excessive lung inflammation and apoptosis of alveolar epithelial cells resulting in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. Recent studies indicated that anaerobic glycolysis play an important role in sepsis. However, whether inhibition of aerobic glycolysis exhibits beneficial effect on sepsis-induced ALI is not known. In vivo, a cecal ligation and puncture (CLP)-induced ALI mouse model was set up and mice treated with glycolytic inhibitor 3PO after CLP. The mice treated with the 3PO ameliorated the survival rate, histopathological changes, lung inflammation, lactate increased and lung apoptosis of mice with CLP-induced sepsis. In vitro, the exposure of human alveolar epithelial A549 cells to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) resulted in cell apoptosis, inflammatory cytokine production, enhanced glycolytic flux and reactive oxygen species (ROS) increased. While these changes were attenuated by 3PO treatment. Sequentially, treatment of A549 cells with lactate caused cell apoptosis and enhancement of ROS. Pretreatment with N-acetylcysteine (NAC) significantly lowered LPS and lactate-induced the generation of ROS and cell apoptosis in A549 cells. Therefore, these results indicate that anaerobic glycolysis may be an important contributor in cell apoptosis of sepsis-related ALI. Moreover, LPS specifically induces apoptotic insults to A549 cell through lactate-mediated enhancement of ROS.
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- Yuanqi Gong
- Department of Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Comprehensive Intensive Care Unit, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China
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- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China.
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The many roads to mitochondrial dysfunction in neuroimmune and neuropsychiatric disorders. BMC Med 2015; 13:68. [PMID: 25889215 PMCID: PMC4382850 DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0310-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2014] [Accepted: 03/04/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Mitochondrial dysfunction and defects in oxidative metabolism are a characteristic feature of many chronic illnesses not currently classified as mitochondrial diseases. Examples of such illnesses include bipolar disorder, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia, depression, autism, and chronic fatigue syndrome. DISCUSSION While the majority of patients with multiple sclerosis appear to have widespread mitochondrial dysfunction and impaired ATP production, the findings in patients diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, autism, depression, bipolar disorder schizophrenia and chronic fatigue syndrome are less consistent, likely reflecting the fact that these diagnoses do not represent a disease with a unitary pathogenesis and pathophysiology. However, investigations have revealed the presence of chronic oxidative stress to be an almost invariant finding in study cohorts of patients afforded each diagnosis. This state is characterized by elevated reactive oxygen and nitrogen species and/or reduced levels of glutathione, and goes hand in hand with chronic systemic inflammation with elevated levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines. SUMMARY This paper details mechanisms by which elevated levels of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species together with elevated pro-inflammatory cytokines could conspire to pave a major road to the development of mitochondrial dysfunction and impaired oxidative metabolism seen in many patients diagnosed with these disorders.
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Morris G, Maes M. Mitochondrial dysfunctions in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome explained by activated immuno-inflammatory, oxidative and nitrosative stress pathways. Metab Brain Dis 2014; 29:19-36. [PMID: 24557875 DOI: 10.1007/s11011-013-9435-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2013] [Accepted: 08/22/2013] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/cfs) is classified by the World Health Organization as a disorder of the central nervous system. ME/cfs is an neuro-immune disorder accompanied by chronic low-grade inflammation, increased levels of oxidative and nitrosative stress (O&NS), O&NS-mediated damage to fatty acids, DNA and proteins, autoimmune reactions directed against neoantigens and brain disorders. Mitochondrial dysfunctions have been found in ME/cfs, e.g. lowered ATP production, impaired oxidative phosphorylation and mitochondrial damage. This paper reviews the pathways that may explain mitochondrial dysfunctions in ME/cfs. Increased levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor-α, and elastase, and increased O&NS may inhibit mitochondrial respiration, decrease the activities of the electron transport chain and mitochondrial membrane potential, increase mitochondrial membrane permeability, interfere with ATP production and cause mitochondrial shutdown. The activated O&NS pathways may additionally lead to damage of mitochondrial DNA and membranes thus decreasing membrane fluidity. Lowered levels of antioxidants, zinc and coenzyme Q10, and ω3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in ME/cfs may further aggravate the activated immuno-inflammatory and O&NS pathways. Therefore, it may be concluded that immuno-inflammatory and O&NS pathways may play a role in the mitochondrial dysfunctions and consequently the bioenergetic abnormalities seen in patients with ME/cfs. Defects in ATP production and the electron transport complex, in turn, are associated with an elevated production of superoxide and hydrogen peroxide in mitochondria creating adaptive and synergistic damage. It is argued that mitochondrial dysfunctions, e.g. lowered ATP production, may play a role in the onset of ME/cfs symptoms, e.g. fatigue and post exertional malaise, and may explain in part the central metabolic abnormalities observed in ME/cfs, e.g. glucose hypometabolism and cerebral hypoperfusion.
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Wang JQ, Zhang L, Tao XG, Wei L, Liu B, Huang LL, Chen YG. Tetramethylpyrazine upregulates the aquaporin 8 expression of hepatocellular mitochondria in septic rats. J Surg Res 2013; 185:286-93. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2013.05.106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2013] [Revised: 05/26/2013] [Accepted: 05/31/2013] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Y a-t-il une place pour les dérivés nitrés dans le traitement du choc septique ? MEDECINE INTENSIVE REANIMATION 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/s13546-012-0446-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/14/2022]
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- M E Bernal
- Universidad de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina, Monterrey, Nuevo León, MéxicoThe University of Texas Health Science Center of Houston, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital/Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USAWorld Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, Paris, France
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- Universidad de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina, Monterrey, Nuevo León, MéxicoThe University of Texas Health Science Center of Houston, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital/Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USAWorld Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, Paris, France
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- Universidad de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina, Monterrey, Nuevo León, MéxicoThe University of Texas Health Science Center of Houston, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital/Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USAWorld Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, Paris, France
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- Universidad de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina, Monterrey, Nuevo León, MéxicoThe University of Texas Health Science Center of Houston, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital/Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, USA The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USAWorld Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, Paris, France
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Increasing intravenous glucose load in the presence of normoglycemia: effect on outcome and metabolism in critically ill rabbits. Crit Care Med 2010; 38:602-11. [PMID: 19851097 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0b013e3181c03f65] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Endocrine disturbances and a feeding-resistant wasting syndrome, characterized by a negative protein balance, promote delayed recovery and poor outcome of critical illness. Parenteral nutrition alone cannot counteract the hypercatabolic state, possibly in part as a result of aggravation of the hyperglycemic response to illness. In critically ill rabbits, we investigated the impact of varying amounts of intravenous glucose while maintaining normoglycemia on mortality, organ damage, and markers of catabolism/anabolism. DESIGN Prospective, randomized laboratory investigation. SETTING University animal and molecular laboratory. SUBJECTS Three-month-old male rabbits. INTERVENTIONS Critically ill rabbits were randomized into a fasting group, a standard parenteral nutrition group, and two groups receiving either intermediate or high additional physiological amounts of intravenous glucose while maintained normoglycemic with insulin. These groups were compared with a hyperglycemic group and healthy rabbits. Protein and lipid load was equal for all fed groups. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Varying intravenous glucose load did not affect mortality or organ damage provided hyperglycemia was prevented. Fasted critically ill rabbits lost weight, which was attenuated by increasing intravenous glucose load. As compared with healthy rabbits, mRNA expression and/or activity of several ubiquitin-proteasome pathway components, cathepsin-L and calpain-1, was elevated in skeletal muscle of fasted critically ill rabbits. Intravenous feeding was able to counteract this response. Excessive glucose load and/or hyperglycemia, however, reduced the protective effect of feeding. Genes investigated in the diaphragm and myocardium revealed roughly a similar response. Except in the normoglycemic group with intermediate glucose load, circulating thyroid hormone and insulin-like growth factor-1 levels decreased, most pronounced in hyperglycemic rabbits. CONCLUSIONS Increasing intravenous glucose infusion within the physiological range, while maintaining normoglycemia, was safe for organ function and survival of critically ill rabbits. Concomitantly, it reduced the catabolic responses as compared with fasting. Whether this has a beneficial effect on muscle function and mass remains to be investigated.
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Vanhorebeek I, Gunst J, Ellger B, Boussemaere M, Lerut E, Debaveye Y, Rabbani N, Thornalley PJ, Schetz M, Van den Berghe G. Hyperglycemic kidney damage in an animal model of prolonged critical illness. Kidney Int 2009; 76:512-20. [PMID: 19536085 DOI: 10.1038/ki.2009.217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Acute kidney injury frequently complicates critical illness and increases mortality; maintaining normoglycemia with insulin has been shown to reduce the incidence of intensive care unit (ICU)-acquired kidney injury. Here we tested the mechanisms by which this intervention might achieve its goal, using a rabbit model of burn-induced prolonged critical illness in which blood glucose and insulin were independently regulated at normal or elevated levels. Hyperglycemia caused elevated plasma creatinine and severe morphological kidney damage that correlated with elevated cortical glucose levels. Renal cortical perfusion and oxygen delivery were lower in hyperglycemic/hyperinsulinemic rabbits, compared to other groups, but this did not explain the elevated creatinine. Mitochondrial respiratory chain activities were severely reduced in the hyperglycemic groups (30-40% residual activity), and were inversely correlated with plasma creatinine and cortical glucose. These activities were much less affected by normoglycemia, and hyperinsulinemia was not directly protective. Mitochondrial damage, evident at day 3, preceded the structural injury evident at 7 days. Our study found that hyperglycemia evoked cellular glucose overload in the kidneys of critically ill rabbits, and this was associated with mitochondrial dysfunction and renal injury. Normoglycemia, independent of insulinemia, protected against this damage.
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- Ilse Vanhorebeek
- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Tissue-specific glucose toxicity induces mitochondrial damage in a burn injury model of critical illness. Crit Care Med 2009; 37:1355-64. [PMID: 19242345 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0b013e31819cec17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE In critically ill patients, preventing hyperglycemia (HG) with insulin therapy partially prevented organ dysfunction and protected mitochondria. A study in a rabbit model of critical illness indicated that lower blood glucose level, rather than higher insulinemia, is a key factor in such organ protection. In this model, we now investigated the impact of blood glucose lowering vs. hyperinsulinemia (HI) on mitochondria in relation to organ damage. We assessed whether such effects on mitochondria are mediated indirectly via organ perfusion or directly via reducing cellular glucose toxicity. DESIGN Prospective, randomized laboratory investigation. SETTING University laboratory. SUBJECTS Three-month-old male rabbits. INTERVENTIONS After induction of critical illness by burn injury, followed by fluid-resuscitation and parenteral nutrition, rabbits were allocated to four groups, each a combination of normal or elevated blood glucose levels with normal or elevated insulin levels. This required alloxan administration, immediately followed by intravenous insulin and glucose infusions titrated to the respective targets. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS In liver, the reduced damage by glucose lowering was not explained by better perfusion/oxygen delivery. Abnormal mitochondrial ultrastructure and function was present in the two hyperglycemic groups, most pronounced with concomitant HI. Affected mitochondrial respiratory chain enzyme activities were reduced to 25% to 62% of values in healthy rabbits, in the presence of up to five-fold increased tissue levels of glucose. This was accompanied by elevated levels of dicarbonyls, which may mediate direct toxicity of cellular glucose overload and accelerated glycolysis. The abnormalities were also present in myocardium, although to a lesser extent, and absent in skeletal muscle. CONCLUSIONS In a rabbit model of critical illness, HG evokes cellular glucose overload in liver and myocardium inducing mitochondrial dysfunction, which explained the HG-induced organ damage. Maintenance of normoglycemia, but not HI, protects against such mitochondrial and organ damage.
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Giannesini B, Izquierdo M, Dalmasso C, Le Fur Y, Cozzone PJ, Verleye M, Le Guern ME, Gillardin JM, Bendahan D. Endotoxemia does not limit energy supply in exercising rat skeletal muscle. Muscle Nerve 2008; 37:496-504. [PMID: 18260074 DOI: 10.1002/mus.20966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Although depletion in high-energy phosphorylated compounds and mitochondrial impairment have been reported in septic skeletal muscle at rest, their impact on energy metabolism has not been documented during exercise. In this study we aimed to investigate strictly gastrocnemius muscle function non-invasively, using magnetic resonance techniques in endotoxemic rats. Endotoxemia was induced by injecting animals intraperitoneally at t(0) and t(0) + 24 h with Klebsiella pneumoniae lipopolysaccharides (at 3 mg kg(-1)). Investigations were performed at t(0) + 48 h during a transcutaneous electrical stimulation protocol consisting of 5.7 min of repeated isometric contractions at a frequency of 3.3 HZ. Endotoxin treatment produced a depletion in basal phosphocreatine content and a pronounced reduction in oxidative adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthesis capacity, whereas the resting ATP concentration remained unchanged. During the stimulation period, endotoxemia caused a decrease in force-generating capacity that was fully accounted for by the loss of muscle mass. It further induced an acceleration of glycolytic ATP production and an increased accumulation of adenosine diphosphate (ADP, an important mitochondrial regulator) that allowed a near-normal rate of oxidative ATP synthesis. Finally, endotoxemia did not affect the total rate of ATP production or the ATP cost of contraction throughout the whole stimulation period. These data demonstrate that, in an acute septic phase, metabolic alterations in resting muscle do not impact energy supply in exercising muscle, likely as a result of adaptive mechanisms.
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- Benoit Giannesini
- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique et Médicale (CRMBM), UMR CNRS 6612, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Marseille, France.
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Koch L, Linderkamp O, Ittrich C, Benner A, Poeschl J. Gene expression profiles of adult peripheral and cord blood mononuclear cells altered by lipopolysaccharide. Neonatology 2008; 93:87-100. [PMID: 17700033 DOI: 10.1159/000107350] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2007] [Accepted: 05/14/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND Neonatal Gram-negative sepsis is often characterized by a fulminant clinical course, compared to adults, resulting in higher morbidity and mortality. Genome-wide gene expression analysis can provide insights into the molecular alterations in sepsis. OBJECTIVES To evaluate in vitro activation of the neonatal and adult immune system, gene expression patterns were compared in mononuclear cells from cord (CBMNC) and adult peripheral blood (APBMNC). METHODS To better understand the influence of early molecular signals on the effects of sepsis, Affymetrix gene profiling (8,475 genes) was done on RNA isolated from CBMNC and APBMNC without and after incubation with 100 ng/ml lipopolysaccharide (LPS). RESULTS We demonstrated significant alterations in the expression of 108 CBMNC and APBMNC genes compared with basal levels, 188 significant changes in CBMNC and 97 in APBMNC, including cytokines, chemokines and immunoregulatory genes. Furthermore, we found 5 genes showing a significant interaction effect between cell type and LPS stimulation, including tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily, member 6 (FAS), absent in melanoma 2, malic enzyme 1, hemoglobin epsilon 1, and trans-prenyltransferase. CONCLUSIONS These results provide further support for a marked difference in the pathogenesis of neonatal and adult sepsis and may stimulate additional studies to investigate some of the altered genes as potential new targets for diagnostic tools and therapeutic strategies.
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- Lutz Koch
- Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Heidelberg, Germany.
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Giannesini B, Izquierdo M, Dalmasso C, Le Fur Y, Cozzone PJ, Verleye M, Le Guern ME, Gillardin JM, Bendahan D. Endotoxemia causes a paradoxical intracellular pH recovery in exercising rat skeletal muscle. Muscle Nerve 2007; 36:505-14. [PMID: 17626288 DOI: 10.1002/mus.20843] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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In resting skeletal muscle, endotoxemia causes disturbances in energy metabolism that could potentially disturb intracellular pH (pH(i)) during muscular activity. We tested this hypothesis using in situ (31)P-magnetic resonance spectroscopy in contracting rat gastrocnemius muscle. Endotoxemia was induced by injecting rats intraperitoneally at t(0) and t(0) + 24 h with Klebsiella pneumoniae endotoxin (lipopolysaccharides at 3 mg/kg) or saline vehicle. Muscle function was investigated strictly noninvasively at t(0) + 48 h through a transcutaneous electrical stimulation protocol consisting of 5.7 minutes of repeated isometric contraction at 3.3 HZ, and force production was measured with an ergometer. At rest, endotoxin treatment did not affect pH(i) and adenosine triphosphate concentration, but significantly reduced phosphocreatine and glycogen contents. Endotoxemia produced both a reduction of isometric force production and a marked linear recovery (0.08 +/- 0.01 pH unit/min) of pH(i) during the second part of the stimulation period. This recovery was not due to any phenomenon of fiber inactivation linked to development of muscle fatigue, and was not associated with any change in intracellular proton buffering, net proton efflux from the cell, or proton turnovers through creatine kinase reaction and oxidative phosphorylation. This paradoxical pH(i) recovery in exercising rat skeletal muscle under endotoxemia is likely due to slowing of glycolytic flux following the reduction in intramuscular glycogen content. These findings may be useful in the follow-up of septic patients and in the assessment of therapies.
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- Benoît Giannesini
- Centre de Résonance Magnétique Biologique et Médicale (CRMBM), UMR CNRS 6612, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13005, Marseille, France.
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Clark IA, Alleva LM, Budd AC, Cowden WB. Understanding the role of inflammatory cytokines in malaria and related diseases. Travel Med Infect Dis 2007; 6:67-81. [PMID: 18342278 DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2007.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2007] [Accepted: 07/04/2007] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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It is now broadly accepted for infectious disease in general that it is not the invading organism, but the body's unbridled response to it--the "cytokine storm"--that causes illness and pathology. Nevertheless, many researchers still regard the harmful effects of falciparum malaria as being governed by oligaemic hypoxia arising from parasitised erythrocytes obstructing blood flow through vulnerable organs, particularly the brain, and we summarise why these notions are no longer tenable. In our view, this harmful sequestration is readily accommodated within the cytokine storm perspective as one of its secondary effects. We approach these issues by examining aspects of malaria, sepsis and influenza in parallel, and discuss the insights that comparisons of the literature can provide on the validity of possible anti-disease therapies.
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- Ian A Clark
- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
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Rupp J, Gieffers J, Klinger M, van Zandbergen G, Wrase R, Maass M, Solbach W, Deiwick J, Hellwig-Burgel T. Chlamydia pneumoniae directly interferes with HIF-1alpha stabilization in human host cells. Cell Microbiol 2007; 9:2181-91. [PMID: 17490410 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2007.00948.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Chlamydiaceae are obligate intracellular bacteria that cause endemic trachoma, sexually transmitted diseases and respiratory infections. The course of the diseases is determined by local inflammatory immune responses and the propensity of the pathogen to replicate within infected host cells. Both features require energy which is inseparably coupled to oxygen availability in the microenvironment. Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) regulates crucial genes involved in the adaptation to low oxygen concentrations, cell metabolism and the innate immune response. Here we report that Chlamydia pneumoniae directly interferes with host cell HIF-1alpha regulation in a biphasic manner. In hypoxia, C. pneumoniae infection had an additive effect on HIF-1alpha stabilization resulting in enhanced glucose uptake during the early phase of infection. During the late phase of intracellular chlamydial replication, host cell adaptation to hypoxia was actively silenced by pathogen-induced HIF-1alpha degradation. HIF-1alpha was targeted by the chlamydial protease-like activity factor, which was secreted into the cytoplasm of infected cells. Direct interference with HIF-1alpha stabilization was essential for efficient C. pneumoniae replication in hypoxia and highlights a novel strategy of adaptive pathogen-host interaction in chlamydial diseases.
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- Jan Rupp
- Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, Center for Structural and Cell Biology in Medicine, University of Luebeck, 23538 Luebeck, Germany.
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Albuszies G, Vogt J, Wachter U, Thiemermann C, Leverve XM, Weber S, Georgieff M, Radermacher P, Barth E. The effect of iNOS deletion on hepatic gluconeogenesis in hyperdynamic murine septic shock. Intensive Care Med 2007; 33:1094-101. [PMID: 17458540 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-007-0638-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2006] [Accepted: 03/26/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of the inducible nitric oxide synthase activation-induced excess nitric oxide formation on the rate of hepatic glucose production during fully resuscitated murine septic shock. DESIGN Prospective, controlled, randomized animal study. SETTING University animal research laboratory. SUBJECTS Male C57Bl/6 and B6.129P2-Nos2(tm1Lau)/J (iNOS-/-) mice. INTERVENTIONS Fifteen hours after cecal ligation and puncture, anesthetized, mechanically ventilated and instrumented mice (wild-type controls, n = 13; iNOS-/-, n = 12; wild-type mice receiving 5 mg.kg(-1) i.p. of the selective iNOS inhibitor GW274150 immediately after cecal ligation and puncture, n =8) received continuous i.v. hydroxyethylstarch and norepinephrine to achieve normotensive and hyperdynamic hemodynamics. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS Measurements were recorded 18, 21 and 24 h after cecal ligation and puncture. Liver microcirculatory perfusion and capillary hemoglobin O2 saturation (laser Doppler flowmetry and remission spectrophotometry) were well maintained in all groups. Despite significantly lower norepinephrine doses required to achieve the hemodynamic targets, the rate of hepatic glucose production (gas chromatography--mass spectrometry measurements of tissue isotope enrichment during continuous i.v. 1,2,3,4,5,6-13C6-glucose infusion) at 24 h after cecal ligation and puncture was significantly higher in both iNOS-/- and GW274150-treated mice, which was concomitant with a significantly higher hepatic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity (spectrophotometry) in these animals. CONCLUSIONS In normotensive, hyperdynamic septic shock, both pharmacologic and genetic deletion of the inducible nitric oxide synthase allowed maintenance of hepatic glucose production, most likely due to maintained activity of the key regulatory enzyme of gluconeogenesis, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase.
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- Gerd Albuszies
- Universitätsklinikum, Sektion Anästhesiologische Pathophysiologie und Verfahrensentwicklung, Parkstrasse 11, 89073 Ulm, Germany
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Nouette-Gaulain K, Quinart A, Letellier T, Sztark F. [Mitochondria in anaesthesia and intensive care]. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 26:319-33. [PMID: 17349772 DOI: 10.1016/j.annfar.2007.01.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2006] [Accepted: 01/17/2007] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Mitochondria play a key role in energy metabolism within the cell through the oxidative phosphorylation. They are also involved in many cellular processes like apoptosis, calcium signaling or reactive oxygen species production. The objectives of this review are to understand the interactions between mitochondrial metabolism and anaesthetics or different stress situations observed in ICU and to know the clinical implications. DATA SOURCES References were obtained from PubMed data bank (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi) using the following keywords: mitochondria, anaesthesia, anaesthetics, sepsis, preconditioning, ischaemia, hypoxia. DATA SYNTHESIS Mitochondria act as a pharmacological target for the anaesthetic agents. The effects can be toxic like in the case of the local anaesthetics-induced myotoxicity. On the other hand, beneficial effects are observed in the anaesthetic-induced myocardial preconditioning. Mitochondrial metabolism could be disturbed in many critical situations (sepsis, chronic hypoxia, ischaemia-reperfusion injury). The study of the underlying mechanisms should allow to propose in the future new specific therapeutics.
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- K Nouette-Gaulain
- Département d'anesthésie-réanimation I, CHU Pellegrin, 33076 Bordeaux cedex, France
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Severe falciparum malaria is an acute systemic disease that can affect multiple organs, including those in which few parasites are found. The acute disease bears many similarities both clinically and, potentially, mechanistically, to the systemic diseases caused by bacteria, rickettsia, and viruses. Traditionally the morbidity and mortality associated with severe malarial disease has been explained in terms of mechanical obstruction to vascular flow by adherence to endothelium (termed sequestration) of erythrocytes containing mature-stage parasites. However, over the past few decades an alternative ‘cytokine theory of disease’ has also evolved, where malarial pathology is explained in terms of a balance between the pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines. The final common pathway for this pro-inflammatory imbalance is believed to be a limitation in the supply and mitochondrial utilisation of energy to cells. Different patterns of ensuing energy depletion (both temporal and spatial) throughout the cells in the body present as different clinical syndromes. This chapter draws attention to the over-arching position that inflammatory cytokines are beginning to occupy in the pathogenesis of acute malaria and other acute infections. The influence of inflammatory cytokines on cellular function offers a molecular framework to explain the multiple clinical syndromes that are observed during acute malarial illness, and provides a fresh avenue of investigation for adjunct therapies to ameliorate the malarial disease process.
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Gunnerson KJ, Saul M, He S, Kellum JA. Lactate versus non-lactate metabolic acidosis: a retrospective outcome evaluation of critically ill patients. CRITICAL CARE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CRITICAL CARE FORUM 2006; 10:R22. [PMID: 16507145 PMCID: PMC1550830 DOI: 10.1186/cc3987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2005] [Revised: 01/03/2006] [Accepted: 01/10/2006] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Introduction Acid–base abnormalities are common in the intensive care unit (ICU). Differences in outcome exist between respiratory and metabolic acidosis in similar pH ranges. Some forms of metabolic acidosis (for example, lactate) seem to have worse outcomes than others (for example, chloride). The relative incidence of each type of disorder is unknown. We therefore designed this study to determine the nature and clinical significance of metabolic acidosis in critically ill patients. Methods An observational, cohort study of critically ill patients was performed in a tertiary care hospital. Critically ill patients were selected on the clinical suspicion of the presence of lactic acidosis. The inpatient mortality of the entire group was 14%, with a length of stay in hospital of 12 days and a length of stay in the ICU of 5.8 days. Results We reviewed records of 9,799 patients admitted to the ICUs at our institution between 1 January 2001 and 30 June 2002. We selected a cohort in which clinicians caring for patients ordered a measurement of arterial lactate level. We excluded patients in which any necessary variable required to characterize an acid–base disorder was absent. A total of 851 patients (9% of ICU admissions) met our criteria. Of these, 548 patients (64%) had a metabolic acidosis (standard base excess < -2 mEq/l) and these patients had a 45% mortality, compared with 25% for those with no metabolic acidosis (p < 0.001). We then subclassified metabolic acidosis cases on the basis of the predominant anion present (lactate, chloride, or all other anions). The mortality rate was highest for lactic acidosis (56%); for strong ion gap (SIG) acidosis it was 39% and for hyperchloremic acidosis 29% (p < 0.001). A stepwise logistic regression model identified serum lactate, SIG, phosphate, and age as independent predictors of mortality. Conclusion In critically ill patients in which a measurement of lactate level was ordered, lactate and SIG were strong independent predictors of mortality when they were the major source of metabolic acidosis. Overall, patients with metabolic acidosis were nearly twice as likely to die as patients without metabolic acidosis.
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- Kyle J Gunnerson
- Assistant Professor, VCURES (Virginia Commonwealth University Reanimation Engineering Shock Center) Laboratory, Departments of Anesthesiology/Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University, 1200 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA
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- Director, Clinical Research Informatics Service, University of Pittsburgh, 450 Scaife Hall, 200 Lothrop St. Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Research Assistant, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public Health, Crabtree Hall, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
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- Professor, CRISMA (Clinical Research, Investigation, and Systems Modeling of Acute illness) Laboratory, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 608, Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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OBJECTIVES The potential advantages of lowering core temperature during sepsis are to lower energy requirement and to activate various cell-protecting pathways. We experimentally investigated whether postconditioning temperature modifications influence survival duration during experimental sepsis. DESIGN A prospective, randomized, experimental animal study. SETTING University laboratory. SUBJECTS Eighteen male Sprague-Dawley rats (median 326 g, range 310-347 g). INTERVENTIONS After anesthesia, experimental sepsis was induced by cecal ligation and perforation. The animals were subsequently assigned a core temperature range: normothermia (37 degrees C), hyperthermia (42 degrees C), and mild hypothermia (32 degrees C). Anesthesia and analgesia were continuously maintained until death. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Plasma lactate and pyruvate concentrations were measured at sepsis induction (H0), 4 hrs later (H4), and/or at the time of death. A significant increase in lactate concentration was observed at the time of death in the 42 degrees C group (p = .04). Lactate-to-pyruvate ratio increased in the 32 degrees C (at H4) and 42 degrees C (at the time of death) groups (p = .04). A linear correlation between a longer survival duration and a lower assigned core temperature was observed (from 61 +/- 10 mins at 42 degrees C to 289 +/- 17 mins at 37 degrees C and to 533 +/- 69 mins at 32 degrees C; R = .959, p < .0001). CONCLUSIONS The current results demonstrate that postconditioning hypothermia was associated with increased survival duration during experimental sepsis. Whether the observed benefits on survival duration are due to potential impacts on energy metabolism or to an anti-inflammatory effect of hypothermia requires further investigation.
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- Erwan L'Her
- Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital, Brest Cedex, France
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Clark IA, Budd AC, Alleva LM, Cowden WB. Human malarial disease: a consequence of inflammatory cytokine release. Malar J 2006; 5:85. [PMID: 17029647 PMCID: PMC1629020 DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-5-85] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2006] [Accepted: 10/10/2006] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Malaria causes an acute systemic human disease that bears many similarities, both clinically and mechanistically, to those caused by bacteria, rickettsia, and viruses. Over the past few decades, a literature has emerged that argues for most of the pathology seen in all of these infectious diseases being explained by activation of the inflammatory system, with the balance between the pro and anti-inflammatory cytokines being tipped towards the onset of systemic inflammation. Although not often expressed in energy terms, there is, when reduced to biochemical essentials, wide agreement that infection with falciparum malaria is often fatal because mitochondria are unable to generate enough ATP to maintain normal cellular function. Most, however, would contend that this largely occurs because sequestered parasitized red cells prevent sufficient oxygen getting to where it is needed. This review considers the evidence that an equally or more important way ATP deficiency arises in malaria, as well as these other infectious diseases, is an inability of mitochondria, through the effects of inflammatory cytokines on their function, to utilise available oxygen. This activity of these cytokines, plus their capacity to control the pathways through which oxygen supply to mitochondria are restricted (particularly through directing sequestration and driving anaemia), combine to make falciparum malaria primarily an inflammatory cytokine-driven disease.
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- Ian A Clark
- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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- School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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- John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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Scharte M, Han X, Uchiyama T, Tawadrous Z, Delude RL, Fink MP. LPS increases hepatic HIF-1alpha protein and expression of the HIF-1-dependent gene aldolase A in rats. J Surg Res 2006; 135:262-7. [PMID: 16930621 DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.05.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2005] [Revised: 05/12/2006] [Accepted: 05/16/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Cellular adaptation to hypoxia is mediated in part by the transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor 1 (HIF-1). Accumulating data suggest that pro-inflammatory mediators can up-regulate HIF-1alpha protein expression and HIF-1 DNA-binding activity in the absence of hypoxia. Accordingly, we investigated HIF-1 mediated signaling in endotoxemic rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied three groups of male Sprague Dawley rats. Controls (N = 5) were injected i.p. with saline. Endotoxemic rats (N = 9) received a sublethal dose of lipopolysaccaride (Escherichia coli; 5 mg/kg, i.p.). A third group of rats (N = 5) received the HIF-1 stabilizing agent CoCl(2) (14 mg/kg, i.p.) at T = 0 h and T = 16 h. At T = 18 h, liver microvascular perfusion was measured using laser Doppler flowmetry and hepatic tissue samples were obtained. RNA was isolated and mRNA levels of the HIF-1 dependent genes aldolase A and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) were determined using quantitative real-time RT-PCR. HIF-1alpha content was estimated by immunoprecipitation followed by Western blotting. RESULTS HIF-1alpha increased in hepatic tissue after treatment with LPS or CoCl(2). LPS markedly increased hepatic expression of aldolase A, but failed to alter expression of VEGF. CoCl(2) increased aldolase A and VEGF mRNA expression. Although hepatic microvascular perfusion was comparable in saline- and LPS-treated rats, hepatic microvascular blood flow and aldolase A expression were significantly inversely correlated among endotoxemic rats (r = 0.773; P = 0.003). CONCLUSIONS Increased expression of aldolase A in endotoxemic rats is mediated by both hypoxia-dependent and hypoxia-independent mechanisms.
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- Marion Scharte
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
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Ellger B, Debaveye Y, Vanhorebeek I, Langouche L, Giulietti A, Van Etten E, Herijgers P, Mathieu C, Van den Berghe G. Survival benefits of intensive insulin therapy in critical illness: impact of maintaining normoglycemia versus glycemia-independent actions of insulin. Diabetes 2006; 55:1096-105. [PMID: 16567534 DOI: 10.2337/diabetes.55.04.06.db05-1434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Tight blood glucose control with insulin reduces morbidity and mortality of critically ill patients. However, the relative impact of maintaining normoglycemia and of glycemia-independent actions of insulin remains unknown. We therefore independently manipulated blood glucose and plasma insulin levels in burn-injured, parentally fed rabbits over 7 days to obtain four study groups: two normoglycemic groups with either normal or elevated insulin levels and two hyperglycemic groups with either normal or elevated insulin levels. We studied the relative impact of glycemia and glycemia-independent effects of insulin on survival; myocardial contractility in an open chest preparation; endothelial function in isolated aortic rings; and liver, kidney, and leukocyte function in a rabbit model of critical illness. Mortality was significantly lower in the two normoglycemic groups independent of insulin levels. Maintaining normoglycemia, independent of insulin levels, prevented endothelial dysfunction as well as liver and kidney injury. To increase myocardial systolic function, elevated insulin levels and prevention of hyperglycemia were required concomitantly. Leukocyte dysfunction was present in the two hyperglycemic groups, which could in part be rescued by insulin. The results suggest that the observed benefits of intensive insulin therapy required mainly maintenance of normoglycemia; whereas glycemia-independent actions of insulin exerted only minor, organ-specific impact.
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- Björn Ellger
- Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Englert JA, Fink MP. The multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and late-phase mortality in sepsis. Curr Infect Dis Rep 2005; 7:335-41. [PMID: 16107229 DOI: 10.1007/s11908-005-0006-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Sepsis is a devastating and common syndrome characterized by systemic inflammation. Sepsis accounts for considerable morbidity and mortality among intensive care unit patients. Although the inflammatory response generated by the immune system represents the body's attempt to clear invading pathogens, it is the failure to modulate this response that leads to dysregulated inflammation and the injury of healthy tissue. A great deal of research has characterized many of the early events and mediators that lead to systemic inflammation and sepsis. However, substantially less is known about the pathogenesis of the late phase of sepsis, which accounts for the vast majority of sepsis-related mortality (ie, the dysfunction and subsequent failure of the major parenchymal organs).
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- Joshua A Englert
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 615 Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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Fink MP, Delude RL. Epithelial Barrier Dysfunction: A Unifying Theme to Explain the Pathogenesis of Multiple Organ Dysfunction at the Cellular Level. Crit Care Clin 2005; 21:177-96. [PMID: 15781156 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2005.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is the most common cause of death among patients requiring care in an ICU. There is widespread agreement that MODS is the clinical manifestation of a dysregulated inflammatory response. This article, however, summarizes some tantalizing data to support the view that derangements in the formation or function of specialized structures in epithelial cells, tight junctions, may be a key factor leading to lung, liver, gut, and perhaps kidney dysfunction associated with such conditions as sepsis and acute lung injury syndrome that are caused by dysregulated inflammatory processes.
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- Mitchell P Fink
- Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 616 Scaife Hall, 3550 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
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Taylor JH, Beilman GJ, Conroy MJ, Mulier KE, Myers D, Gruessner A, Hammer BE. Tissue energetics as measured by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy during hemorrhagic shock. Shock 2004; 21:58-64. [PMID: 14676685 DOI: 10.1097/01.shk.0000101674.49265.93] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The defect in energy production in an organism during shock states may be related to the impairment of mitochondrial respiration early in shock. The aim of this study was to investigate the timing and degree of cellular energetic changes during hemorrhagic shock in real time. Instrumented, splenectomized swine were randomized to undergo hemorrhagic shock, induced by a 35% blood volume bleed, for 90 min with (n = 10) or without (n = 9) subsequent resuscitation. Resuscitated animals received shed blood in two increments followed by two normal saline boluses (20 mL/kg/bolus). Throughout experimentation, tissue phosphoenergetics of liver and skeletal muscle were monitored using 31P nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy via NMR coils on the liver and hindlimb. Near-infrared spectroscopy probes were used to measure liver, stomach, and skeletal muscle oxyhemoglobin saturation (StO2). Hemorrhagic shock induced an increase in phosphomonoesters in skeletal muscle (baseline: 7.09%, 90 min: 9.94% (P < 0.05); expressed as percent total phosphorus). This increase resolved in animals receiving resuscitation (n = 10) but remained elevated in those in unresuscitated shock (n = 9). Inorganic phosphate levels increased and betaATP levels decreased significantly in the liver of animals in shock as compared with baseline. StO2 in skeletal muscle, stomach, and liver correlated with whole organism oxygen delivery (r2 = 0.356, 0.368, and 0.432, respectively). We conclude that hemorrhagic shock induces early elevation of phosphomonoesters in skeletal muscle, which correlates with the severity of shock. This implies an early transition to anaerobic glycolysis during hemorrhagic shock, which may be indicative of early mitochondrial dysfunction.
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- Jodie H Taylor
- Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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L'Her E, Sebert P. Effects of dichloroacetate and ubiquinone infusions on glycolysis activity and thermal sensitivity during sepsis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004; 143:352-7. [PMID: 15192651 DOI: 10.1016/j.lab.2004.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Energy-metabolism disturbances during sepsis are characterized by enhanced glycolytic fluxes and reduced mitochondrial respiration. However, it is not known whether these abnormalities are the result of a specific mitochondrial alteration, decreased pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) complex activity, depletion of ubiquinone (CoQ(10); electron donor for the mitochondrial complex III), or all 3. In this study we sought to specify metabolism disturbances in a murine model of sepsis, using either a PDH-activator infusion (dichloroacetate, DCA) or CoQ(10) supplementation. After anesthesia, Sprague-Dawley rats received intravenous saline solution (control; n = 5), DCA (n = 5; 20 mg/100 g), or CoQ(10) (n = 5; 1 mg/100 g), before the induction of sepsis. Increased plasma lactate levels and increased muscle glucose content were observed after 4 hours in the control group. In the DCA group, a decrease in the muscle content of lactate (P <.05) and an increase in muscle glucose content (P <.05) were observed at 4 hours, but no lactatemia variation was noted. In the CoQ(10) group, only increased plasma lactate levels were observed. Increased muscle glycolysis fluxes were observed after 4 hours in the control group, but to a slighter degree in both the DCA and CoQ(10) groups. Only DCA restored a normal temperature sensitivity in the hyperthermia range, but we noted no differences in survival time. In conclusion, only DCA infusion restores normal glycolysis function.
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- Erwan L'Her
- Reánimation et Urgences Médicales, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Cavale Blanche, Brest, France.
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During the past decade, enormous advances have been made in cell biology. Major advances included the publication of the human genome sequence, the development of proteomics, and DNA microarray technologies and techniques to selectively "silence" genes using short strands of double-stranded RNA. Some areas of great progress that are particularly relevant to critical care medicine include huge improvements in our understanding of the signal transduction pathways involved in the innate immune response and adaptation to hypoxia. Other areas of important progress include improvements in our understanding of how inflammation causes derangements in epithelial structure and function and impairs cellular utilization of oxygen.
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- Mitchell P Fink
- Departments of Critical Care Medicine and Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Berg S, Sappington PL, Guzik LJ, Delude RL, Fink MP. Proinflammatory cytokines increase the rate of glycolysis and adenosine-5'-triphosphate turnover in cultured rat enterocytes. Crit Care Med 2003; 31:1203-12. [PMID: 12682494 DOI: 10.1097/01.ccm.0000059647.92390.92] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Measurements of steady-state adenosine-5'-triphosphate (ATP) levels in tissue samples from patients or experimental animals with sepsis or endotoxemia provide little information about the rate of ATP production and consumption in these conditions. Accordingly, we sought to use an in vitro "reductionist" model of sepsis to test the hypothesis that proinflammatory cytokines modulate ATP turnover rate. DESIGN In vitro "reductionist" model of sepsis. SETTING University laboratory. SUBJECTS Cultured rat enterocyte-like cells. INTERVENTIONS IEC-6 nontransformed rat enterocytes were studied under control conditions or following incubation for 24 or 48 hrs with cytomix, a mixture of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (10 ng/mL), interleukin-1beta (1 ng/mL), and interferon-gamma (1000 units/mL). To measure ATP turnover rate, ATP synthesis was acutely blocked by adding to the cells a mixture of 2-deoxyglucose (10 mM), potassium cyanide (8 mM), and antimycin A (1 microM). ATP content was measured at baseline (before metabolic inhibition) and 0.5, 1, 2, 5, and 10 mins later. Log-linear ATP decay curves were generated and the kinetics of ATP utilization thereby calculated. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS ATP consumption rate was higher in cytomix-stimulated compared with control cells (3.11 +/- 1.39 vs. 1.25 +/- 0.66 nmol/min, respectively; p <.01). Similarly, the half-time for ATP disappearance was shorter in cytomix-stimulated compared with control cells (2.63 +/- 1.00 vs. 6.21 +/- 3.49; p <.05). In contrast to these findings, the rate of ATP disappearance was similar in cytokine-naïve and immunostimulated IEC-6 cells when protein and nucleic acid synthesis were inhibited by adding 50 microg/mL cycloheximide and 5 microg/mL actinomycin D to cultures for 4 hrs. The rates of glucose consumption and lactate production were significantly greater in cytomix-stimulated compared with controls cells. CONCLUSIONS Incubation of IEC-6 cells with cytomix significantly increased ATP turnover. Increased ATP turnover rate was supported by increases in the rate of anaerobic glycolysis. These findings support the view that proinflammatory mediators impose a metabolic demand on visceral cells. In sepsis, cells may be more susceptible to dysfunction on the basis of diminished oxygen delivery and/or mitochondrial dysfunction.
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- Sören Berg
- Department of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia (SB), Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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Scharte M, Han X, Bertges DJ, Fink MP, Delude RL. Cytokines induce HIF-1 DNA binding and the expression of HIF-1-dependent genes in cultured rat enterocytes. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2003; 284:G373-84. [PMID: 12388200 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00076.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Cellular adaptation to hypoxia depends, in part, on the transcription factor hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1). Normoxic cells exposed to an inflammatory milieu often manifest phenotypic changes, such as increased glycolysis, that are reminiscent of those observed in hypoxic cells. Accordingly, we investigated the effects of cytomix, a mixture containing IFN-gamma, TNF, and IL-1beta on the expression of HIF-1-dependent proteins under normoxic and hypoxic conditions. Incubation of intestine-derived epithelial cells (IEC-6) under 1% O(2) increased HIF-1 DNA binding and expression of aldolase A, enolase-1, and VEGF mRNA. Incubation of normoxic cells with cytomix for 48 h also markedly increased HIF-1 DNA binding and expression of mRNAs for these proteins. Incubation of hypoxic cells with cytomix did not inhibit HIF-1 DNA binding or upregulation of HIF-1-dependent genes in response to hypoxia. Neither cytomix nor hypoxia increased steady-state levels of HIF-1alpha mRNA. Incubation of IEC-6 cells with cytomix induced nitric oxide (NO.) biosynthesis, which was blocked if the cultures contained l-N(G)-(1-iminoethyl)lysine hydrochloride (l-NIL). Treatment with l-NIL, however, failed to significantly alter aldolase A, enolase-1, and VEGF mRNA levels in normoxic cytomix-treated cells. Proinflammatory cytokines activate the HIF-1 pathway and increase expression of glycolytic genes in nontransformed rat intestinal epithelial cells, largely through an NO.-independent mechanism.
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- Marion Scharte
- Klinik und Poliklinik für Anästhesiologie und Operative Intensivmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Münster, Münster, Germany
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Träger K, Radermacher P, Leverve X. The adrenergic coin: perfusion and metabolism. Intensive Care Med 2003; 29:150-3. [PMID: 12594579 DOI: 10.1007/s00134-002-1596-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2002] [Accepted: 09/20/2002] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the temperature sensitivity of glycolysis during sepsis. DESIGN A prospective, randomized, controlled animal study. SETTING The Physiological Department of a University Hospital. SUBJECTS Ten male Sprague-Dawley rats, weighing 400-500 g. INTERVENTIONS The rats were assigned to either a septic (n = 5) or a sham-control group (n = 5). After anesthesia (H0), experimental sepsis was induced by a cecal ligation and perforation, and the left lateral gastrocnemius was sampled. Four hours later (H4), a second anesthesia was performed to sample the contralateral muscle. The sham-control group underwent the same procedures, but the cecum was neither ligated nor incised. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS Glycolytic flux (J(B), the rate at which glycogen can be used in muscle) and the transition time (t99 : the time required for the transition from aerobic to anaerobic metabolism) were measured by using spectrophotometry. The measurements were performed at seven different temperature levels, ranging from 32 to 42 degrees C. For each measured variable, the temperature sensitivity of glycolysis was assessed by computing the Q10 values, which is the variation ratio of the measured variable, attributed to a 10 degrees C temperature increase. In control rats, anesthesia and surgical procedures induced a J(B) increase (7.9 +/- 1.6 at H0 vs. 11.9 +/- 2.1 micromol x min-1 x g(tissue) at H4, p<.05) without any t99 variation. Whatever the group (control or septic), the same temperature variation induced an effect that was approximately three times higher in the hypothermia (<37 degrees C) than in the hyperthermia range (>37 degrees C; p<.05). However, a loss in thermal sensitivity was observed in septic rats in the hyperthermia range (Q10 = 1.2 +/- 0.1 for septic animals vs. 2.3 +/- 0.4 for control animals; p<.05). CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates that glycolysis is more sensitive to temperature in the hypothermia range than in the hyperthermia range. The loss in thermal sensitivity at >37 degrees C in septic rats suggests that sepsis may induce a dysregulation of glycolysis. From an energetic point of view, this signifies that hyperthermia may by itself impair energy metabolism without improving energy production and thus must be treated during sepsis.
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- Philippe Sébert
- Laboratoire de Physiologie, Unité Haute Pression et Métabolism, Faculté de Médecine, CHU de la Cavale Blanche, Brest Cedex, France
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Bateman RM, Sharpe MD, Ellis CG. Bench-to-bedside review: microvascular dysfunction in sepsis--hemodynamics, oxygen transport, and nitric oxide. Crit Care 2003; 7:359-73. [PMID: 12974969 PMCID: PMC270719 DOI: 10.1186/cc2353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 211] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The microcirculation is a complex and integrated system that supplies and distributes oxygen throughout the tissues. The red blood cell (RBC) facilitates convective oxygen transport via co-operative binding with hemoglobin. In the microcirculation oxygen diffuses from the RBC into neighboring tissues, where it is consumed by mitochondria. Evidence suggests that the RBC acts as deliverer of oxygen and 'sensor' of local oxygen gradients. Within vascular beds RBCs are distributed actively by arteriolar tone and passively by rheologic factors, including vessel geometry and RBC deformability. Microvascular oxygen transport is determined by microvascular geometry, hemodynamics, and RBC hemoglobin oxygen saturation. Sepsis causes abnormal microvascular oxygen transport as significant numbers of capillaries stop flowing and the microcirculation fails to compensate for decreased functional capillary density. The resulting maldistribution of RBC flow results in a mismatch of oxygen delivery with oxygen demand that affects both critical oxygen delivery and oxygen extraction ratio. Nitric oxide (NO) maintains microvascular homeostasis by regulating arteriolar tone, RBC deformability, leukocyte and platelet adhesion to endothelial cells, and blood volume. NO also regulates mitochondrial respiration. During sepsis, NO over-production mediates systemic hypotension and microvascular reactivity, and is seemingly protective of microvascular blood flow.
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- Ryon M Bateman
- Vascular Biology Program, Lawson Health Research Institute, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
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Glycolysis in Sepsis and other Stress Conditions. Intensive Care Med 2003. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4757-5548-0_81] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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- Martin J Tobin
- Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital, Route 11N, Hines, Illinois 60141, USA.
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