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JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Volume 21, Issue 11, Pages 2937-2949Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jcmm.13206
Keywords
epithelial-mesenchymal transition; nintedanib; Src; pulmonary fibrosis; ventilator-induced lung injury
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- Ministry of Science and Technology [105-2314-B-182A-091-MY2]
- Chang Gung Medical Research Project [CMRPG3E1712]
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Mechanical ventilation (MV) used in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) can increase lung inflammation and pulmonary fibrogenesis. Src is crucial in mediating the transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta 1-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) during the fibroproliferative phase of ARDS. Nintedanib, a multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor that directly blocks Src, has been approved for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The mechanisms regulating interactions among MV, EMT and Src remain unclear. In this study, we suggested hypothesized that nintedanib can suppress MV-augmented bleomycin-induced EMT and pulmonary fibrosis by inhibiting the Src pathway. Five days after administrating bleomycin to mimic acute lung injury (ALI), C57BL/6 mice, either wild-type or Src-deficient were exposed to low tidal volume (V-T) (6 ml/kg) or high V-T (30 ml/kg) MV with room air for 5hrs. Oral nintedanib was administered once daily in doses of 30, 60 and 100 mg/kg for 5 days before MV. Non-ventilated mice were used as control groups. Following bleomycin exposure in wild-type mice, high V-T MV induced substantial increases in microvascular permeability, TGF-beta 1, malondialdehyde, Masson's trichrome staining, collagen 1a1 gene expression, EMT (identified by colocalization of increased staining of alpha-smooth muscle actin and decreased staining of E-cadherin) and alveolar epithelial apoptosis (P < 0.05). Oral nintedanib, which simulated genetic downregulation of Src signalling using Src-deficient mice, dampened the MV-augmented profibrotic mediators, EMT profile, epithelial apoptotic cell death and pathologic fibrotic scores (P < 0.05). Our data indicate that nintedanib reduces high V-T MV-augmented EMT and pulmonary fibrosis after bleomycin-induced ALI, partly by inhibiting the Src pathway.
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