Cardiovascular protective role for activated protein C during endotoxemia in rats
| Autor: | Raphael Favory, Steve Lancel, Remi Neviere, Xavier Marechal, Stéphanie Tissier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Serine Proteinase Inhibitors medicine.medical_treatment Inflammation Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Cardiovascular System Rats Sprague-Dawley Random Allocation Intensive care Internal medicine medicine Animals Protein C Inhibitor Venule biology business.industry Small intestine Endotoxemia Rats medicine.anatomical_structure Cytokine Endocrinology Myeloperoxidase Immunology biology.protein Macrophage migration inhibitory factor medicine.symptom business Protein C medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Intensive care medicine. 32(6) |
| ISSN: | 0342-4642 |
| Popis: | We examined whether activated protein C (APC) treatment improves cardiovascular inflammation and dysfunction in endotoxemic rats.Randomized, controlled trial in an experimental laboratory of a university physiology departmentMale Sprague Dawley rats.Internal carotid artery and external jugular vein were catheterized under sterile conditions in rats. Instrumented rats infused or not with APC (240 microg/kg per hour) were challenged with E. coli endotoxin (10 mg/kg). Four hours after endotoxin challenge rats were prepared for cardiovascular functional studies and tissue and blood analyses.Endotoxin administration induced systemic hypotension, depression of myocardial systolic performance and reduction in capillary density of the small intestine muscularis layer. Plasma levels of nitrite/nitrate, tumor necrosis factor alpha and macrophage migration inhibitory factor, mesentery venule leukocyte-endothelium interactions, heart and small intestine myeloperoxidase activities were increased in endotoxin-treated rats. APC largely prevented endotoxin-induced cardiovascular dysfunction with improved systemic hemodynamics, functional capillary density, and myocardial contractile performance. Beneficial cardiovascular effects of APC were associated with attenuation of entotoxin-induced inflammatory response in terms of plasma levels of nitrite/nitrate, tumor necrosis factor alpha, macrophage migration inhibitory factor, and endothelial cell-leukocyte activation.APC reduces systemic and tissue inflammation and preserves cardiovascular function during experimental endotoxemia. |
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