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Subchronic endotoxin inhalation causes persistent airway disease

¹Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham 27710-0001; and ²United States Environmental Protection Agency, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711

Submitted 6 January 2003 ; accepted in final form 27 May 2003

The endotoxin component of organic dusts causes acute reversible airflow obstruction and airway inflammation. To test the hypothesis that endotoxin alone causes airway remodeling, we have compared the response of two inbred mouse strains to subchronic endotoxin exposure. Physiological and biological parameters were evaluated after 1 day, 5 days, or 8 wk of exposure to endotoxin [lipopolysaccharide (LPS)] in endotoxin-sensitive (C3HeB/FeJ) and endotoxin-resistant (C3H/HeJ) mice. After 5 days or 8 wk of LPS exposure, only C3HeB/FeJ had elevated airway hyperreactivity to inhaled methacholine. Only the C3HeB/FeJ mice had significant inflammation of the lower respiratory tract after 1 day, 5 days, or 8 wk of LPS exposure. Stereological measurements of small, medium, and large airways indicated that an 8-wk exposure to LPS resulted in expansion of the submucosal area only in the C3HeB/FeJ mice. Cell proliferation as measured by bromodeoxyuridine incorporation contributed to the expansion of the submucosa and was only significantly elevated in C3HeB/FeJ mice actively exposed to LPS. C3HeB/FeJ mice had significantly elevated levels of interleukin-1 protein in whole lung lavage after 1 day and 5 days of LPS exposure and significantly elevated protein levels of total and active transforming growth factor-1 in whole lung lavage fluid after 5 days of LPS exposure. Our findings demonstrate that subchronic inhalation of LPS results in the development of persistent airway disease in endotoxin-responsive mice.

airway remodeling; neutrophilic inflammation; cytokines

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