The role of leptin in the development of pulmonary neutrophilia in infection and acute lung injury.
The role of leptin in the development of pulmonary neutrophilia in infection and acute lung injury.
复制标题
DOI:
10.1097/ccm.0000000000000048
复制
发表时间:
2014-02
影响因子:
8.8
通讯作者:
Suratt BT
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Ubags ND;Vernooy JH;Burg E;Hayes C;Bement J;Dilli E;Zabeau L;Abraham E;Poch KR;Nick JA;Dienz O;Zuñiga J;Wargo MJ;Mizgerd JP;Tavernier J;Rincón M;Poynter ME;Wouters EF;Suratt BT
One of the hallmarks of severe pneumonia and associated Acute Lung Injury (ALI) is neutrophil recruitment to the lung. Leptin is thought to be up-regulated in the lung following injury and to exert diverse effects on leukocytes, influencing both chemotaxis and survival. We hypothesized that pulmonary leptin contributes directly to the development of pulmonary neutrophilia during pneumonia and ALI. Controlled human and murine in vivo and ex vivo experimental studies. Research laboratory of a university hospital. Healthy human volunteers and subjects hospitalized with bacterial and H1N1 pneumonia. C57Bl/6 and db/db mice were also used. Lung samples from patients and mice with either bacterial or H1N1 pneumonia and associated ALI were immunostained for leptin. Human bronchoalveolar-lavage (BAL) samples obtained after lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced lung injury were assayed for leptin. C57Bl/6 mice were examined after oropharyngeal aspiration of recombinant leptin alone or in combination with E.coli- or K.pneumonia-induced pneumonia. Leptin-resistant (db/db) mice were also examined using the E.coli model. BAL neutrophilia and cytokine levels were measured. Leptin-induced chemotaxis was examined in human blood- and murine marrow-derived neutrophils in vitro. Injured human and murine lung tissue showed leptin induction compared to normal lung, as did human BAL following LPS instillation. BAL neutrophilia in uninjured and infected mice was increased and lung bacterial-load decreased by airway leptin administration, whereas BAL neutrophilia in infected leptin-resistant mice was decreased. In sterile lung injury by LPS, leptin also appeared to decrease airspace neutrophil apoptosis. Both human and murine neutrophils migrated towards leptin in vitro, and this required intact signaling through the JAK2/PI3K pathway. We demonstrate that pulmonary leptin is induced in injured human and murine lungs and that this cytokine is effective in driving alveolar airspace neutrophilia. This action appears to be caused by direct effects of leptin on neutrophils.