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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE
卷 1792, 期 10, 页码 1011-1018出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2009.06.006
关键词
Apoptosis; Toll-like receptor; Sepsis; Endotoxin; Infection
资金
- Ministry of the Environment
Endothelial cell injury/dysfunction is considered to play a critical role in the pathogenesis of severe sepsis and septic shock. Although it is considered that endothelial cell apoptosis is involved in endothelial injury/dysfunction. physiological involvement remains ambiguous since the induction of apoptosis requires the inhibition of endogenous apoptosis inhibitors. Here we show that caspase-3 activation, a biological indicator of apoptosis, is observed in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) Stimulation even under the influence of endogenous apoptosis inhibitors, and that activated caspase-3 is rapidly released from human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) In the presence of cycloheximide (CHX), an increase in intracellular caspase-3/7 activity in response to LIPS was not detected in HUVEC up to 24 h following Stimulation even in the presence of LPS-binding protein (LBP). soluble CD14 and soluble MD-2, whereas the decrease in cell viability and increase in release of the cellular enzyme lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) were observed in a soluble CD14/LBP-dependent manner On the other hand, even in the absence of CHX, a significant increase in caspase-3/7 activity and a cleaved caspase-3 fragment with a slight increase in LDH release was observed in culture supernatants in response to LIPS This increase in caspase-3/7 activity was observed even when LDH release was undetected. These results indicate that caspase-3 is activated by LIPS under physiological conditions and suggest that HUVEC escape from cell death by rapidly releasing activated caspase-3 into extracellular space. Failure of this escape mechanism may result in endothelial injury/dysfunction (C) 2009 Elsevier B V. All rights reserved
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