title: Age-dependent responses to hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury.
abstract: The current study explored the concept that adult and pediatric populations differ in their response to major injury. Male C57BL/6 mice of a "young adult" (8-12 weeks) or "mature adult" (12-13 months) age were subjected to partial hepatic ischemia and reperfusion. Mature adult mice displayed significantly more liver injury than young adult mice as assessed histologically and by serum levels of alanine aminotransferase. Interestingly, there was far less neutrophil accumulation in the livers of mature adult mice. However, liver-recruited neutrophils from mature adult mice had a higher activation state than those from young adult mice. Activation of the inflammatory transcription factor, NF-kappaB, was suppressed in whole livers from mature adult mice. In isolated liver cells, Kupffer cells showed no difference in NF-kappaB activation, but hepatocytes from mature adult mice had delayed NF-kappaB activation in response to TNF. Furthermore, isolated hepatocytes from young adult mice produced abundant amounts of the chemokine, macrophage inflammatory protein-2, whereas hepatocytes from mature adult mice produced little, if any macrophage inflammatory protein-2. Mature adult mice had much lower hepatic expression of the cytoprotective protein, heat shock protein 70, than did young adult mice. In contrast, serum heat shock protein 70 levels, which has been linked to subsequent tissue injury, were higher in mature adult mice than in young adult mice. These data suggest that there are multiple alterations at the cellular and molecular levels that contribute to enhanced postischemic liver injury in mature adult mice.
authors.affiliation: The Laboratory of Trauma, Sepsis, and Inflammation Research, Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267-0558, USA.
authors.forename: Tomohisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okaya
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blanchard
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schuster
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kuboki
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Husted
authors.forename: Charles C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Caldwell
authors.forename: Basilia
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zingarelli
authors.forename: Hector
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.forename: Joseph S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Solomkin
authors.forename: Alex B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Lentsch
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D054426:Chemokine CXCL2; D016207:Cytokines / Q000378:metabolism; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D022781:Hepatocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D007249:Inflammation; D007728:Kupffer Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides / Q000378:metabolism; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D015846:Monokines / Q000378:metabolism; D016328:NF-kappa B / Q000378:metabolism; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000378:metabolism; D009195:Peroxidase / Q000378:metabolism; D015427:Reperfusion Injury / Q000473:pathology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
chemical_list: D054426:Chemokine CXCL2; D016207:Cytokines; D018840:HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins; D008070:Lipopolysaccharides; D015846:Monokines; D016328:NF-kappa B; D009195:Peroxidase