title: Role of interleukin-1 in endotoxin-induced lung injury in the rat.
abstract: The effects of the recombinant interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (rIL-1ra) on the systemic vascular and lung injury following intraperitoneal Salmonella enteritidis lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were determined in male Sprague-Dawley rats. Initial experiments identified that maximal mortality occurred with an intraperitoneal LPS dose of 20 mg/kg, and this dose was used in subsequent experiments. Albumin permeability, measured in an ex vivo perfused heart-lung preparation from the rats 2 h after injection of LPS, was increased with endotoxin as was the wet:dry weight ratio. Pretreatment of the rats with intravenous rIL-1ra, 1 to 10 mg/kg, followed by a continuous intravenous infusion at 30 to 50 micrograms/kg/min resulted in restoration of blood pressure at 100 min following endotoxin administration. Moreover, coadministration of rIL-1ra with endotoxin totally prevented the rise in albumin permeability of the pulmonary vasculature and the increase in wet:dry lung weight ratios observed in rats treated with LPS alone. LPS injected intraperitoneally caused a marked decrease in circulating leukocyte count, an effect not reversed by rIL-1ra. RNA extraction of whole-lung homogenates revealed that mRNA for IL-1 beta was constitutively expressed in the absence of endotoxin, but transcripts increased progressively from 0.5 to 2 h after endotoxin administration. Increases in mRNAs for tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and for macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2), a potent neutrophil chemoattractant, were also observed from 0.5 until 2 h after endotoxin administration.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville.
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Rose
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Juliano
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Tracey
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Fu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001834:Body Water; D002199:Capillary Permeability; D054426:Chemokine CXCL2; D016207:Cytokines / Q000235:genetics; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000633:toxicity*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D015846:Monokines / Q000235:genetics; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D017472:Receptors, Interleukin-1 / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D054426:Chemokine CXCL2; D016207:Cytokines; D007375:Interleukin-1; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D015846:Monokines; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D017472:Receptors, Interleukin-1; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha