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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 176, Issue 12, Pages 7154-7158Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.176.12.7154
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM062508, R01-GM53789, R01-GM50441, R01-GM37631, P50-GM53789, R01-GM52021] Funding Source: Medline
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High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) is a NF released extracellularly as a late mediator of lethality in sepsis and as an early mediator of inflammation following injury. Here we demonstrate that in contrast to the proinflammatory role of HMGB1, preconditioning with HMGB1 results in protection following hepatic ischemia/reperfusion (I/R). Pretreatment of mice with HMGB1 significantly decreased liver damage after I/R. The protection observed in micepretreated with HMGB1 was associated with a higher expression of IL-IR-associated kinase-M, a negative regulator of TLR4 signaling, compared with controls. We thus explored the possibility that HMGB1 preconditioning was mediated through TLR4 activation. HMGB1 preconditioning failed to provide protection in TLR4 mutant (C3H/HeJ) mice, but successfully reduced damage in TLR4 wild-type (C3H/HeOuj) mice. Our studies demonstrate that in contrast to the role of HMGB1 as an early mediator of inflammation and organ damage in hepatic I/R, HMGB1 preconditioning can be protective.
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