Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
Volume 22, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijms221810083
Keywords
biomarkers; extracellular vesicles; burn injury; trauma; sepsis
Funding
- NIH [GM131124, GM008450, ES007126, AA024829, AA028924, AA028599]
- Jaycee Burn Trust
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Research shows that extracellular vesicles after burn injury can promote macrophage activation and predict the length of hospital stay for patients. This suggests that extracellular vesicles may be drivers of immune responses after burn injury.
Severe burn injury is a devastating form of trauma that results in persistent immune dysfunction with associated morbidity and mortality. The underlying drivers of this immune dysfunction remain elusive, and there are no prognostic markers to identify at-risk patients. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are emerging as drivers of immune dysfunction as well as biomarkers. We investigated if EVs after burn injury promote macrophage activation and assessed if EV contents can predict length of hospital stay. EVs isolated early from mice that received a 20% total body surface area (TBSA) burn promoted proinflammatory responses in cultured splenic macrophages. Unbiased LC-MS/MS proteomic analysis of early EVs (<72 h post-injury) from mice and humans showed some similarities including enrichment of acute phase response proteins such as CRP and SAA1. Semi-unbiased assessment of early human burn patient EVs found alterations consistent with increased proinflammatory signaling and loss of inhibition of CRP expression. In a sample of 50 patients with large burn injury, EV SAA1 and CRP were correlated with TBSA injury in both sexes and were correlated with length of hospital stay in women. These findings suggest that EVs are drivers of immune responses after burn injury and their content may predict hospital course.
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