title: Cytokine profile of human septic shock serum inducing cardiomyocyte contractile dysfunction.
abstract: This study was designed to measure nitrite/nitrate and cytokine levels of serum obtained from septic shock patients and to describe potential depressant effects of human septic serum on rat cardiomyocytes. Serum was prepared from 10 non-septic patients and 10 patients with documented septic shock. Adult rat ventricular myocytes were exposed to 20 % serum in the medium. Cardiomyocyte contractility was assessed by measuring shortening fraction and shortening velocity. Serum levels of nitrite/nitrate, a marker of nitric oxide final metabolites, and cytokines (tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha, interleukin (IL) 1beta, 6, 10, 8 and 12p70) were measured. Compared with serum from non-septic patients, serum of septic shock patients induced rapid reduction of the extent and velocity of shortening in isolated cardiomyocytes. Nitrite/nitrate, TNF-alpha, IL-1beta and IL-12p70 concentrations of tested serum for cardiomyocyte studies were not increased in septic serum compared with controls. In contrast, septic serum that induced a depression of in vitro contractility, had increased levels of IL-6, IL-8 and IL-10. We can conclude that the depression of in vitro contractility induced by septic serum is not directly dependent on elevated levels of nitric oxide metabolites, TNF-alpha or IL-1beta. Our results support the view that other cytokines, including IL-6, IL-8 and IL-10, are potent circulating mediators of myocardial depression in cardiomyocytes.
authors.affiliation: EA 2689, IMPRT-IFR 114, Lille University, France.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Joulin
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Petillot
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Labalette
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lancel
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Neviere
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D016207:Cytokines / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D009200:Myocardial Contraction; D032383:Myocytes, Cardiac / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D009566:Nitrates / Q000097:blood; D009573:Nitrites / Q000097:blood; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000097:blood* / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines; D009566:Nitrates; D009573:Nitrites