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BLOOD
Volume 101, Issue 10, Pages 3940-3947Publisher
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2002-07-2303
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- NHLBI NIH HHS [HL65226, HL48872] Funding Source: Medline
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In septic shock, tissue factor (TF) activates blood coagulation, and cytokines and chemokines orchestrate an inflammatory response. In this study, the role of Egr-1 in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induction of TF and inflammatory mediators in vivo was evaluated using Egr-1(+/+) and Egr-1(-/-) mice. Ad. ministration of LPS transiently increased the steady-state levels of Egr-1 mRNA in the kidneys and lungs of Egr-1(+/+) mice with maximal induction at one hour. Egr-1 was expressed in epithelial cells in the kidneys and lungs in untreated and LPS-treated mice. LPS induction of monocyte chemoattractant protein mRNA in the kidneys and lungs of Egr-1(-/-) mice was not affected at 3 hours, but its expression was significantly reduced at 8 hours compared with the expression observed in Egr-1(+/+) mice. Similarly, LIPS Induction of TF mRNA expression in the kidneys and lungs at 8 hours was reduced 16 Egr-1 mice. However, Egr-1 deficiency did not affect plasma levels of tumor necrosis factor a. in endotoxemic mice. Moreover, Egr-1(+/+) and Egr-1(-/-) mice exhibited similar survival times in a model of acute endotoxemia. these data indicate that Egr-1 does not contribute to the early inflammatory response in the kidneys and lungs or the early systemic inflammatory response in endotoxemic mice. However, Egr-1 does contribute to the sustained expression of Inflammatory mediators and to the maximal expression of TF at 8 hours in the kidneys and lungs. (C) 2003 by The American Society of Hematology.
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