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JOURNAL OF BURN CARE & RESEARCH
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 279-285Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e3182331d75
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- Shriners Hospitals for Children [8902, 8903]
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The objective of this study was to increase the understanding of the second-hit response in thermal injury. The authors hypothesized that prior thermal injury increases the endotoxin-induced inflammatory response of intestinal mucosa. Mice underwent sham or 25% TBSA scald injury. Seven days after injury, mice were injected with lipopolysaccharide. Blood, jejunum, and colon specimens were obtained at intervals. Serum, jejunal, and colon inflammatory cytokine levels were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Jejunal and colon nuclear factor (NF)-kappa B activation was measured by electrophoretic mobility shift assay. After remote thermal injury, lipopolysaccharide exposure led to an acute increase in serum interleukin (IL)-6, IL-10, and chemokine keratinocyte-derived chemokine (KC) levels. This correlated with lipopolysaccharide-induced increased IL-6 in colon and chemokine KC in the jejunum and colon in burned mice when compared with sham-injured mice. Lipopolysaccharide-induced NF-kappa B activation occurred more rapidly in jejunum and colon from burned mice compared with sham-injured mice. Prior thermal injury accelerates lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammatory cytokine production systemically in jejunum and colon. The second hit of lipopolysaccharide led to earlier intestinal NF-kappa B activation in burned mice compared with sham-injured mice. These results indicate that there is a heightened inflammatory response by jejunum and colon in response to a second hit of lipopolysaccharide after burn injury. (J Burn Care Res 2012;33:279-285)
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