MD Schwartz, JE Repine and E Abraham
Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262, USA.

Acute inflammatory lung injury often complicates hemorrhagic shock, a systemic ischemia-reperfusion syndrome. Because oxygen radicals are generated during ischemia-reperfusion, and oxygen radicals can activate nuclear regulatory factors that affect transcription of proinflammatory cytokines, we examined the premise that oxygen radicals increase interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF- alpha) expression in lung mononuclear cells after hemorrhage. Intraparenchymal pulmonary mononuclear cells isolated 1 h after hemorrhage from control mice had increased levels of mRNA for IL-1 beta (P < 0.001) and TNF-alpha (P < 0.05) compared with cells from sham- hemorrhaged mice. Hemorrhaged mice treated with the oxygen radical scavenger dimethylthiourea (DMTU) had decreased levels of mRNA for IL-1 beta in pulmonary mononuclear cells, compared with hemorrhaged controls (P < 0.05). In hemorrhaged mice depleted of xanthine oxidase (XO) by a tungsten-enriched diet, pulmonary mononuclear cell mRNA levels for IL-1 beta and TNF-alpha were significantly decreased (P < 0.01 and 0.05, respectively), compared with cells from hemorrhaged control mice fed a normal diet. Similarly, mRNA transcripts for IL-1 beta and TNF-alpha among pulmonary mononuclear cells from hemorrhaged mice treated with allopurinol, an inhibitor of XO, were also significantly reduced (P < 0.05 and 0.001, respectively), compared with hemorrhaged control mice not treated with allopurinol. Our results indicate that XO-derived oxygen radicals contribute to the increased expression of mRNA for IL-1 beta and TNF-alpha, which occurs among pulmonary mononuclear cell populations immediately after hemorrhage.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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