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Endotoxin tolerance in rats: influence on LPS-induced changes in excretory liver function
E Domínguez Fernández1, S Flohé, F Siemers
1Department of General Surgery, Mannheim Medical School, University of Heidelberg, Theodor Kutzer-Ufer 1-3, DE-68167 Mannheim, Germany. emilio.dominguez@chir.ma.uni-heidelberg.de
Objective And Design:
We investigated in a rat model of endotoxic shock whether endotoxin tolerance (ETT) prevents lipopolysaccharide (LPS) associated lethality and studied the initial function of liver response to LPS.
Animals:
Male Sprague-Dawley rats.
Treatment:
ETT was induced by i.p. injection of LPS (Salmonella friedenau) intraperitoneally over 5 days. Rats (n = 6 each group) received 1 mg LPS/kg b. w. intravenously (Salmonella friedenau). The common bile duct was then canalized and bile was collected every 60 min for 6 h. 1 h after LPS-application liver biopsies were taken for determination of TNF-alpha by RT-PCR. Sham operated animals (n = 6 each group) were treated identically but without application of LPS.
Results:
All ETT animals survived the duration of the experiment whereas non-tolerant animals (NETT) died before the end of the experiment (5/6). NETT animals showed a continuous decrease in bile flow after 240 min. The amount of bile acids was significantly lower (ANOVA) in NETT animals than in sham operated controls or ETT-animals. Analysis of TNF-alpha mRNA expression in the liver revealed an upregulation 1 h after LPS application, which was significantly lower in LPS-tolerant animals.
Conclusions:
Our results show that excretory liver failure and death subsequent to intravenous LPS application can be successfully counteracted by induction of ETT.