Gadolinium chloride inhibits lipopolysaccharide-induced mortality and in vivo prostaglandin E2 release by splenic macrophages
Gadolinium chloride inhibits lipopolysaccharide-induced mortality and in vivo prostaglandin E2 release by splenic macrophages
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DOI:
10.1016/s1091-255x(99)80072-9
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发表时间:
1999-05-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Flye, MW
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作者:
Roland, CR;Nakafusa, Y;Flye, MW
The monocytic phagocytic system, consisting primarily of tissue macrophages of the liver and spleen, produces prostaglandin E-2 (PGE(2)), a modulator of the septic response, Macrophages are known to internalize gadolinium chloride (GD), a lanthanide metal, which inhibits phagocytic function. Thus we studied the effect of in vivo GD on lipopolysacchride (LPS)-induced mortality and on LPS-stimulated PGE2 release by cultured splenic macrophages. GD (7 mg/kg intravenously) given on the two days prior to LPS challenge (30 mg/kg int ravenously) completely prevented the uniform mortality in rats. This protective effect was transient since rechallenge with LPS 10 days later was uniformly lethal. Previous work in this laboratory has established a critical role of arginine concentration on macrophage behavior in vitro. Therefore, to establish culture conditions reflective of the milieu within the portal venous system, alanine and arginine levels were measured in the portal and hepatic veins of normal and endotoxemic (LPS, 10 mg/kg intraperitoneally) rats. Ln contrast to alanine levels, which were not altered by endotoxemia, there was a reduction of arginine concentrations from a range of 50 to 250 mu mol/L in normal rats to a range of 10 to 50 mu mol/L after LPS challenge. Consequently subsequent in vitro assays of splenic macrophage secretory behavior were performed in concentrations of 1200 mu mol/L arginine (in standard RPMI-1640), as well as in concentrations reflective of physiologic arginine levels (10 and 100 mu mol/L in modified RPMI-1640). Rat splenic macrophages harvested after two consecutive days of either in vivo saline or GD injection (7 mg/kg intravenously) were stimulated with LPS (0.025 to 2.5 mu g/ml). At 72 hours of culture, the release of PGE2 by splenic macrophages from GD-treated rats was significantly (P