Therapeutic application of lung collectin in acute lung injury

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The purpose of this project were to clarify the mechanism of regulation by which Toll-like receptors (TLRs) act against drug-induced acute lung injury (ALI), to evaluate the protective effect by lung a collectin, SP-A and to establish the molecular basis for the clinical application of it. Bleomycin (BLM)-administered SP-A(-/-) mice had significantly higher mortality rate and more increase of inflammatory cytokines in the lungs than wild types. SP-A inhibited BLM-induced inflammatory cytokines from rat alveolar macrophages. sTLR2 gene-transfected HEK293 cells showed up-regulation of NF-kB. BML bound directly with sTLR2 and its binding was blocked by SP-A. These results indicate that BLM-induced signal depends on TLR2 and lung collectin, SP-A has protective function against ALI via TLR2 dependent signal pathway.