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BLOOD
卷 113, 期 12, 页码 2742-2745出版社
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2008-09-178038
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- National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD) [National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD
- AR056296]
- American Lebanese Syrian Association Charities (Memphis, TN)
Extensive apoptosis of leukocytes during sepsis and endotoxic shock constitutes an important mechanism linked to the excessive mortality associated with these disorders. Caspase inhibitors confer protection from endotoxin-induced lymphocyte apoptosis and improve survival, but it is not clear which caspases mediate lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced lymphocyte apoptosis and mortality. We report here that the apoptotic executioner caspase-7 was activated in the splenocytes of LPS-injected mice, suggesting a role for caspase-7 in lymphocyte apoptosis. Indeed, caspase-7-deficient mice were resistant to LPS-induced lymphocyte apoptosis and were markedly protected from LPS-induced lethality independently of the excessive production of serum cytokines. These results reveal for the first time a nonredundant role for caspase-7 in vivo and identify caspase-7 inhibition as a component of the mechanism by which caspase inhibitors protect from endotoxin-induced mortality. (Blood. 2009;113:2742-2745)
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