Toll-like receptor 4 mediates the early inflammatory response after cold ischemia/reperfusion
Toll-like receptor 4 mediates the early inflammatory response after cold ischemia/reperfusion
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DOI:
10.1097/01.tp.0000287597.87571.17
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发表时间:
2007-11-27
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影响因子:
6.2
通讯作者:
Billiar, Timothy R.
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作者:
Kaczorowski, David J.;Nakao, Atsunori;Billiar, Timothy R.
Background. Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury leads to graft dysfunction and may contribute to alloimmune responses posttransplantation. The molecular mechanisms of cold I/R injury are only partially characterized but may involve toll-like receptor (TLR)-4 activation by endogenous ligands. We tested the hypothesis that TLR4 mediates the early inflammatory response in the setting of cold I/R in a murine cardiac transplant model.Methods. Syngeneic heart transplants were performed in mutant mice deficient in TLR4 signaling (C3H/HeJ) and wild-type mice (C3H/HeOuJ). Transplants were also performed between the strains (mutant hearts into wild-type recipients and the converse). Donor hearts were subjected to 2 hr of cold ischemia. The grafts were retrieved at 3 and 24 hr after reperfusion. Serum samples were collected for cytokine analysis. Reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction and histologic analysis were used to assess intra-graft inflammation.Results. After transplant, serum tumor necrosis factor (TNF), interleukin (IL)-6, JE/monocyte chemotractant protein (MCP)- 1, IL- 1 beta, and troponin I levels, as well as intragraft TNF, IL- 1 beta, IL-6, early growth response (EGR) - 1, intercellular adhesion molecule (ICAM) - 1, and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) mRNA levels, were significantly lower in the mutant-mutant group compared to the wild- type -> wild-type group (P wild-type and wild -type -> mutant groups. Immunohistochemistry revealed less myocardial nuclear factor-kappa B nuclear translocation at and less neutrophil infiltration in the mutant -> mutant group compared to the wild-type -> wild- type group.Conclusions. These findings demonstrate that TLR4 signaling is central to both the systemic and intragraft inflammatory responses that occur after cold I/R in the setting of organ transplantation and that TLR4 signaling on both donor and recipient cells contributes to this response.