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Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 281: L387-L393, 2001;
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Vol. 281, Issue 2, L387-L393, August 2001

Augmented metalloproteinase activity and acute lung injury in copper-deficient rats

Alex B. Lentsch1, Atsushi Kato1, Jack T. Saari2, and Dale A. Schuschke3

Departments of 1 Surgery and 3 Physiology and Biophysics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, Kentucky 40292; and 2 Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Grand Forks, North Dakota 58202

Dietary copper is required for normal function of >30 mammalian enzyme systems. Copper deficiency causes a number of cardiovascular defects as well as impaired immune cell function. Little is known regarding the effects of copper deficiency on acute inflammatory responses, but this topic is relevant because many members of the Western population receive less than the recommended dietary allowance of copper. In the current studies, we investigated the effects of dietary copper deficiency on acute lung injury induced by intrapulmonary deposition of IgG immune complexes. Weanling male Long-Evans rats were fed diets either adequate (5.6 µg/g) or deficient (0.3 µg/g) in copper. IgG immune complex lung injury was greatly increased in copper-deficient rats as determined by lung vascular leakage of albumin and histopathology. However, no change was observed in either the lung content of tumor necrosis factor-alpha or lung neutrophil accumulation. Lungs from copper-deficient rats had much higher levels of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-9 than did copper-adequate control animals. This increased activity was not attributable to alveolar macrophages or neutrophils. These data suggest that the augmented lung injury caused by copper deficiency is due to increased pulmonary MMP-2 and MMP-9 activity and not a generalized amplification of the inflammatory response.

inflammation; gelatinase; neutrophils; cytokines


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