AJP - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Vol 273, Issue 5 1058-L1064, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Hemorrhagic shock induces G-CSF expression in bronchial epithelium

C. Hierholzer, E. Kelly, K. Tsukada, E. Loeffert, S. Watkins, T. R. Billiar and D. J. Tweardy
Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA.

Hemorrhagic shock (HS) initiates a series of inflammatory processes that includes the activation of polymorphonuclear granulocytic neutrophils (PMN). We tested the hypothesis that HS induces granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF), a cytokine that augments PMN effector functions, in the lungs of rats. Sprague-Dawley rats were subjected to compensated or decompensated HS followed by resuscitation and death at 4 or 8 h. Animals subjected to HS demonstrated acute lung injury with PMN infiltration, edema, and hypoxia. Using semiquantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, we detected a 1.9- to 7.1-fold increase in G-CSF mRNA levels in the lung of animals subjected to HS compared with sham controls. Levels of G-CSF mRNA increased with increased duration of the ischemic phase of resuscitated shock. In situ hybridization revealed that bronchoepithelial cells were the major cellular site of G-CSF mRNA. Thus production of G-CSF mRNA by bronchoepithelial cells is dramatically increased in a rat model of HS that also demonstrated lung injury. Increased local G-CSF levels may contribute to PMN recruitment and activation and resultant lung injury in HS.

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