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SHOCK
卷 36, 期 1, 页码 67-75出版社
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/SHK.0b013e3182184ee7
关键词
Commensal microflora; pneumonia; LPS; toll-like receptors; IL-1 beta
资金
- National Science Council, Taipei [NSC942314B075B011]
- Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung [VGHNSU93-04, VGHKS95-022]
- Tsou's Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan [VGHUST95-P7-34]
The influence of the gut-lung axis on the lung immunity, although appreciated, remains undefined mechanically. This study was designed to investigate whether commensal microflora in gut increase host defense against subsequent pneumonia through toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling and if oral TLR4 ligand supplementation enhances lung defense against bacterial challenge. We found that commensal gut depletion by antibiotic pretreatment before Escherichia coli pneumonia challenge induced a 15-fold and a 3-fold increase in bacterial counts in blood and lung, respectively, and a 30% increase of mortality when compared with the E. coli group. Commensal depletion also induced a suppression of cytokines expression as well as nuclear factor kappa B activity in intestine. Furthermore, LPS supplementation during antibiotic pretreatment reversed these effects. Commensal depletion also decreased bacterial killing activity of alveolar macrophages and increased IL-6 as well as IL-1 beta levels and keratinocyte-derived chemokine, macrophage inflammatory protein 2, and IL-1 beta expression of lung, and LPS supplementation reversed them. In conclusion, commensal gut microflora in the intestinal tract appear to be critical in inducing TLR4 expression as well as nuclear factor kappa B activation of intestine and lung innate defense against E. coli pneumonia.
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