Azithromycin Blocks Neutrophil Recruitment inPseudomonasEndobronchial Infection
| Autor: | Katherine S. Young, Victor J. Thannickal, Wan C. Tsai, Jane C. Deng, Kazuhiro Tateda, Marc B. Hershenson, Michael L. Rodriguez, Theodore J. Standiford |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Chemokine Inflammation Azithromycin Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Proinflammatory cytokine Microbiology Mice Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases In vivo Intensive care Extracellular medicine Animals Pseudomonas Infections Antibacterial agent Chemotactic Factors biology business.industry Bronchial Diseases Anti-Bacterial Agents Mice Inbred C57BL Chemotaxis Leukocyte Neutrophil Infiltration biology.protein Cytokines Tumor necrosis factor alpha Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 170:1331-1339 |
| ISSN: | 1535-4970 1073-449X |
| Popis: | Macrolides exert their effects on the host by modulation of immune responses. In this study, we assessed the therapeutic efficacy of azithromycin in a murine model of mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa endobronchial infection. The clearance of Pseudomonas from the airway of mice treated with the macrolide azithromycin was not different than untreated mice challenged with Pseudomonas beads. However, the azithromycin-treated mice showed a remarkable reduction in lung cellular infiltrate in response to Pseudomonas beads, as compared with untreated mice. This effect was associated with significant decreases in lung levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and keratinocyte-derived chemokine in azithromycin-treated mice compared with untreated mice. Furthermore, there was a significant reduction in the response of both mouse and human neutrophils to chemokine-dependent and -independent chemoattractants when studied in vitro. Inhibition of chemotaxis correlated with azithromycin-mediated inhibition of extracellular signal-regulated kinase-1 and -2 activation. This study indicates that the azithromycin treatment in vivo results in significant reduction in airway-specific inflammation, which occurs in part by inhibition of neutrophil recruitment to the lung through reduction in proinflammatory cytokine expression and inhibition of neutrophil migration via the extracellular signal-regulated kinase-1 and -2 signal transduction pathway. |
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