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JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY
Volume 105, Issue 4, Pages 1282-1290Publisher
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.90689.2008
Keywords
mechanical stress; pulmonary capillary leakage
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- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [R01 HL-049441, P50 HL-73994]
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Signaling via p38 MAP kinase has been implicated in the mechanotransduction associated with mechanical stress and ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). However, the critical downstream mediators of alveolar injury remain incompletely defined. We provide evidence that high-tidal volume mechanical ventilation (HVT MV) rapidly activates caspases within the lung, resulting in increased alveolar cell apoptosis. Antagonism of MV-induced p38 MAP kinase activity with SB-203580 suppresses both MV-induced caspase activity and alveolar apoptosis, placing p38 MAP kinase upstream of MV-induced caspase activation and programmed cell death. The reactive oxygen species (ROS)-producing enzyme xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) is activated in a p38 MAP kinase-dependent manner following HVT MV. Allopurinol, a XOR inhibitor, also suppresses HVT MV-induced apoptosis, implicating HVT MV-induced ROS in the induction of alveolar cell apoptosis. Finally, systemic administration of the pan-caspase inhibitor, z-VAD-fmk, but not its inactive peptidyl analog, z-FA-fmk, blocks ventilator-induced apoptosis of alveolar cells and alveolar-capillary leak, indicating that caspase-dependent cell death is necessary for VILI-associated barrier dysfunction in vivo.
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