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Publication : Multiple contributing roles for NOS2 in LPS-induced acute airway inflammation in mice.

First Author  Okamoto T Year  2004
Journal  Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol Volume  286
Issue  1 Pages  L198-209
PubMed ID  12972406 Mgi Jnum  J:107838
Mgi Id  MGI:3622367 Doi  10.1152/ajplung.00136.2003
Citation  Okamoto T, et al. (2004) Multiple contributing roles for NOS2 in LPS-induced acute airway inflammation in mice. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 286(1):L198-209
abstractText  Acute lung inflammation and injury were induced by intranasal instillation of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in normal and type 2 nitric oxide synthase (NOS2)-deficient (NOS2-/-) C57BL/6 mice. LPS-induced increases in extravasated airway neutrophils and in lung lavage fluid of TNF-alpha and macrophage inflammatory protein-2 were markedly lower in NOS2-/- than in wild-type mice, indicating that NOS2-derived nitric oxide (NO.) participates in inflammatory cytokine production and neutrophil recruitment. Instillation of LPS also increased total lung lavage protein and induced matrix metalloproteinase-9 and mucin 5AC, as indexes of lung epithelial injury and/or mucus hyperplasia, and increased tyrosine nitration of lung lavage proteins, a marker of oxidative injury. All these responses were less pronounced in NOS2-/- than in wild-type mice. Inhibition of NOS activity also suppressed production of TNF-alpha and macrophage inflammatory protein-2 by LPS-stimulated mouse alveolar MH-S macrophages, and this was restored by NO. donors, illustrating involvement of NO. in macrophage cytokine signaling. Oligonucleotide microarray (GeneChip) analysis of global lung gene expression revealed that LPS inhalation induced a range of transcripts encoding proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines, stress-inducible factors, and other extracellular factors and suppressed mRNAs encoding certain cytoskeletal proteins and signaling proteins, responses that were generally attenuated in NOS2-/- mice. Comparison of both mouse strains revealed altered expression of several cytoskeletal proteins, cell surface proteins, and signaling proteins in NOS2-/- mice, changes that may partly explain the reduced responsiveness to LPS. Collectively, our results suggest that NOS2 participates in the acute inflammatory response to LPS by multiple mechanisms: involvement in proinflammatory cytokine signaling and alteration of the expression of various genes that affect inflammatory-immune responses to LPS.
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