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Involvement of necroptotic cell death in macrophages in progression of bleomycin and LPS-induced acute exacerbation of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
European Journal of Pharmacology 2024 April 12
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the severe form of interstitial pneumonias. Acute exacerbation (AE) of IPF is characterized by progressive lung fibrosis with the irreversible lung function decline and inflammation, and is often fatal with poor prognosis. However, the physiological and molecular mechanisms in AE of IPF are still not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the mechanism underlying AE of IPF, using bleomycin (BLM) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) (BLM+LPS)-treated mice. The mice were treated with a single dose of 1.5 mg/kg BLM (on day 0) and/or 0.5 mg/kg LPS (on day 14), and maintained for another 7 days (total 21 days). Administration of BLM+LPS more severely aggravated the respiratory function, fibrosis, and inflammation in the lungs, together with the elevated interleukin-6 level in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, than the control or BLM alone-treated mice. Moreover, the terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick-end labeling (TUNEL) assay demonstrated that subsequent treatment with LPS elevated cell death in the lungs of BLM-administered mice. Furthermore, the expression levels of mixed lineage kinase domain-like protein (MLKL), a marker of necroptotic cell death, and CD68-positive macrophages were increased, and most of them were co-stained in the lungs of BLM+LPS-treated mice. These results, taken together, indicate that BLM+LPS treatment showed more exacerbated the respiratory function with extensive fibrosis and inflammation than treatment with BLM alone in mice. Fibrosis and inflammation in AE of IPF seen in BLM+LPS-administered mice included an increase in macrophages and their necroptotic cell death.
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