Mechanical stress activates xanthine oxidoreductase through MAP kinase-dependent pathways
2006
Xanthine oxidoreductase (XOR) plays a prominent role in acute lung injury because of its ability to generate reactive oxygen species. We investigated the role of XOR in ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). Male C57BL/6J mice were assigned to spontaneous ventilation (sham) or mechanical ventilation (MV) with low (7 ml/kg) and high tidal volume (20 ml/kg) for 2 h after which lung XOR activity and expression were measured and the effect of the specific XOR inhibitor allopurinol on pulmonary vascular leakage was examined. In separate experiments, rat pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells (RPMECs) were exposed to cyclic stretch (5% and 18% elongation, 20 cycles/min) for 2 h before intracellular XOR activity measurement. Lung XOR activity was significantly increased at 2 h of MV without changes in XOR expression. There was evidence of p38 MAP kinase, ERK1/2, and ERK5 phosphorylation, but no change in JNK phosphorylation. Evans blue dye extravasation and bronchoalveolar lavage protein concentration were si...
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- Tidal volume
- Bronchoalveolar lavage
- Mitogen-activated protein kinase
- Extravasation
- Allopurinol
- Biochemistry
- Evans Blue
- Biology
- Molecular biology
- Pathology
- Reactive oxygen species
- p38 mitogen-activated protein kinases
- Lung
- Pharmacology
- Diabetes mellitus
- lung injury
- Xanthine Oxidoreductase
- Mechanical ventilation
- Immunology
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