Endotoxin tolerance protects against local hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury in the rat |
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Authors: | Fernández E D Flohé S Siemers F Nau M Ackermann M Ruwe M Schade F U |
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Institution: | Department of General Surgery, Mannheim Medical School, University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. emilio.dominguez@chir.ma.uni-heidelberg.de |
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Abstract: | Liver surgery and liver transplantation as well as circulatory shock are often associated with hepatic ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Recent evidence suggests that TNF-alpha plays a central role in I/R injury and, therefore, down-regulation of TNF-alpha seems to be a promising way to protect against the deleterious consequences of I/R. Endotoxin tolerance represents a state of unresponsiveness to endotoxin and is associated with diminished TNF-alpha production. Thus, the effect of endotoxin tolerance on hepatic I/R injury of the liver was investigated in a rat model. I/R injury was induced by temporary ischemia of the left lateral liver lobe for 90 min followed by a 3 h observation period of reperfusion. I/R injury resulted in functional hepatic disorder characterized by a decrease both in bile flow and bile acid concentration and 50% mortality. This was prevented by induction of endotoxin tolerance. Hepatic TNF-alpha mRNA expression after I/R of the liver was determined by RT-PCR. In untreated rats, TNF-alpha mRNA was induced in the liver 60 min after reperfusion and further increased until 3 h after reperfusion. In contrast, in endotoxin-tolerant rats, no increases in TNF-alpha mRNA expression were detected. This suggests that induction of endotoxin tolerance protects against hepatic I/R injury possibly via down-regulation of intra-organ TNF-alpha expression. |
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