Differences in cytokine response and induction of nitric oxide synthase in endotoxin-resistant and endotoxin-sensitive mice after intravenous gram-negative infection - PubMed (original) (raw)

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Differences in cytokine response and induction of nitric oxide synthase in endotoxin-resistant and endotoxin-sensitive mice after intravenous gram-negative infection

T J Evans et al. J Immunol. 1993.

Abstract

Previous reports have suggested that the endotoxin-resistant C3H/HeJ strain of mouse is more susceptible to infection than is the endotoxin-sensitive parent strain, C3H/HeN, although they have never been compared in an i.v. model of sepsis. We therefore have used these mouse strains in an i.v. model of Gram-negative sepsis to compare their sensitivities to infection, their cytokine responses, and the levels of induction of the enzyme nitric oxide synthase assayed in their livers. By using i.v. infection with Escherichia coli we have found that both strains are approximately equally sensitive to this organism, despite the C3H/HeJ mice having a markedly attenuated TNF-alpha response. IFN-gamma levels after infection were identical in the two strains; the levels of nitric oxide synthase induced in their livers were about fourfold greater in the C3H/HeJ mice. This difference could not be explained by differences in bacterial load. These experiments suggest that factors other than TNF-alpha are important in determining outcome from Gram-negative sepsis and that TNF-alpha is not a major factor in the induction of hepatic nitric oxide synthase after infection in vivo.

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Differences in cytokine response and induction of nitric oxide synthase in endotoxin-resistant and endotoxin-sensitive mice after intravenous gram-negative infection - PubMed (original) (raw)