Sodium Nitrite Enhances Lung Airway Epithelial Cells Wound Healing In Vitro And Alleviates LPS-induced Acute Lung Injury In Mice

Author(s):  
LING WANG ◽  
Bryan J. McVerry ◽  
Sheila A. Frizzell ◽  
Mark T. Gladwin
2018 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 163-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia M. Schwartz ◽  
Braedyn A. Dorn ◽  
Selam Habtemariam ◽  
Cynthia L. Hill ◽  
Tendy Chiang ◽  
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1996 ◽  
Vol 270 (6) ◽  
pp. L1031-L1039 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Ohmichi ◽  
K. Matsumoto ◽  
T. Nakamura

Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) has mitogenic, morphogenic, and motogenic activities on epithelial cells and plays important roles in regeneration of the liver and the kidney. We previously found that the expression of HGF gene is rapidly induced in the lung after acute lung injury in experimental animals and that HGF levels are elevated in blood of patients with lung diseases. To search for a possible pulmotrophic function of HGF in lung regeneration, we examined the mitogenic activity of HGF on tracheal epithelial cells in vitro and evaluated the efficacy of HGF-administration on lung regeneration after acute lung injury in mice. HGF markedly stimulated proliferation and DNA synthesis of rat tracheal epithelial cells in primary culture in a dose-dependent manner. The intravenous injection of human recombinant HGF (10 micrograms.mouse-1.day-1) into mice with acute lung injury induced by the intratracheal infusion of 10 mM HCI stimulated DNA synthesis of airway epithelial cells to levels threefold higher than those in mice with no HGF-injections, but it did not stimulate DNA synthesis of alveolar epithelial cells. However, HGF injection at higher dose (100 micrograms.mouse-1.day-1) stimulated DNA synthesis of alveolar epithelial cells in vivo. These results indicate that HGF is a potent mitogen for airway epithelial cells and alveolar epithelial cells in vivo as well as in vitro. HGF may act as pulmotrophic factor responsible for airway and alveolar regeneration during lung regeneration after acute lung injury.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dongdong Liu ◽  
Pu Mao ◽  
Yongbo Huang ◽  
Yiting Liu ◽  
Xiaoqing Liu ◽  
...  

Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) remains a high morbidity and mortality disease entity in critically ill patients, despite decades of numerous investigations into its pathogenesis. To obtain global protein expression changes in acute lung injury (ALI) lung tissues, we employed a high-throughput proteomics method to identify key components which may be involved in the pathogenesis of ALI. In the present study, we analyzed lung tissue proteomes ofPseudomonas aeruginosa-induced ALI rats and identified eighteen proteins whose expression levels changed more than twofold as compared to normal controls. In particular, we found that PRDX1 expression in culture medium was elevated by a lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge in airway epithelial cellsin vitro. Furthermore, overexpression of PRDX1 increased the expression of proinflammatory cytokines interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-8 (IL-8), and tumor necrosis factor-α(TNF-α), whereas knockdown of PRDX1 led to downregulated expression of cytokines induced by LPS. In conclusion, our findings provide a global alteration in the proteome of lung tissues in the ALI rat model and indicate that PRDX1 may play a critical role in the pathogenesis of ARDS by promoting inflammation and represent a novel strategy for the development of new therapies against ALI.


Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 944
Author(s):  
Jung Yeon Hong ◽  
Mi Na Kim ◽  
Eun Gyul Kim ◽  
Jae Woo Lee ◽  
Hye Rin Kim ◽  
...  

Exposure to high oxygen concentrations leads to generation of excessive reactive oxygen species, causing cellular injury and multiple organ dysfunctions and is associated with a high mortality rate. Clusterin (CLU) is a heterodimeric glycoprotein that mediates several intracellular signaling pathways, including cell death and inflammation. However, the role of CLU in the pathogenesis of hyperoxic acute lung injury (HALI) is unknown. Wild-type (WT) and CLU-deficient mice and cultured human airway epithelial cells were used. Changes in cell death- and inflammation-related molecules with or without hyperoxia exposure in cells and animals were determined. Hyperoxia induced an increase in CLU expression in mouse lungs and human airway epithelial cells. Mice lacking CLU had increased HALI and mortality rate compared with WT mice. In vitro, CLU-disrupted cells showed enhanced release of cytochrome c, Bax translocation, cell death and inflammatory cytokine expression. However, treatment with recombinant CLU attenuated hyperoxia-induced apoptosis. Moreover, the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes and Gene Ontology analyses revealed metabolic pathways, hematopoietic cell lineage, response to stress and localization and regulation of immune system that were differentially regulated between WT and CLU−/− mice. These results demonstrate that prolonged hyperoxia-induced lung injury is associated with CLU expression and that CLU replenishment may alleviate hyperoxia-induced cell death.


Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meenakshi Tiwary ◽  
Robert J. Rooney ◽  
Swantje Liedmann ◽  
Kim S. LeMessurier ◽  
Amali E. Samarasinghe

Eosinophils, previously considered terminally differentiated effector cells, have multifaceted functions in tissues. We previously found that allergic mice with eosinophil-rich inflammation were protected from severe influenza and discovered specialized antiviral effector functions for eosinophils including promoting cellular immunity during influenza. In this study, we hypothesized that eosinophil responses during the early phase of influenza contribute to host protection. Using in vitro and in vivo models, we found that eosinophils were rapidly and dynamically regulated upon influenza A virus (IAV) exposure to gain migratory capabilities to traffic to lymphoid organs after pulmonary infection. Eosinophils were capable of neutralizing virus upon contact and combinations of eosinophil granule proteins reduced virus infectivity through hemagglutinin inactivation. Bi-directional crosstalk between IAV-exposed epithelial cells and eosinophils occurred after IAV infection and cross-regulation promoted barrier responses to improve antiviral defenses in airway epithelial cells. Direct interactions between eosinophils and airway epithelial cells after IAV infection prevented virus-induced cytopathology in airway epithelial cells in vitro, and eosinophil recipient IAV-infected mice also maintained normal airway epithelial cell morphology. Our data suggest that eosinophils are important in the early phase of IAV infection providing immediate protection to the epithelial barrier until adaptive immune responses are deployed during influenza.


2004 ◽  
Vol 287 (2) ◽  
pp. L448-L453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Geiser ◽  
Masanobu Ishigaki ◽  
Coretta van Leer ◽  
Michael A. Matthay ◽  
V. Courtney Broaddus

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are released into the alveolar space and contribute to alveolar epithelial damage in patients with acute lung injury. However, the role of ROS in alveolar repair is not known. We studied the effect of ROS in our in vitro wound healing model using either human A549 alveolar epithelial cells or primary distal lung epithelial cells. We found that H2O2 inhibited alveolar epithelial repair in a concentration-dependent manner. At similar concentrations, H2O2 also induced apoptosis, an effect seen particularly at the edge of the wound, leading us to hypothesize that apoptosis contributes to H2O2-induced inhibition of wound repair. To learn the role of apoptosis, we blocked caspases with the pan-caspase inhibitor N-benzyloxycarbonyl-Val-Ala-Asp (zVAD). In the presence of H2O2, zVAD inhibited apoptosis, particularly at the wound edge and, most importantly, maintained alveolar epithelial wound repair. In H2O2-exposed cells, zVAD also maintained cell viability as judged by improved cell spreading and/or migration at the wound edge and by a more normal mitochondrial potential difference compared with cells not treated with zVAD. In conclusion, H2O2 inhibits alveolar epithelial wound repair in large part by induction of apoptosis. Inhibition of apoptosis can maintain wound repair and cell viability in the face of ROS. Inhibiting apoptosis may be a promising new approach to improve repair of the alveolar epithelium in patients with acute lung injury.


CHEST Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 155 (3) ◽  
pp. 534-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Davis ◽  
Isao Suzaki ◽  
Shuichi Kawano ◽  
Kosaku Komiya ◽  
Qing Cai ◽  
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