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Christina Hafner1, Jing Wu, Lourdes Soto-Gonzalez
1From the Department of Anaesthesia, General Intensive Care and Pain Management, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (CH, JW, LS-G, EVT, KM, KUK); Department of Anaesthesia, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China (JW); Department of Internal Medicine II, Medical University Vienna (CK, SS, JW); Ludwig-Boltzmann-Cluster for Cardiovascular Research (JW); Core Facilities, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria (JW).
Background:
Perioperative oxygen (O2) therapy can cause hyperoxia. Extreme hyperoxia can injure the cardiovascular system and remote organs.
Objective:
Our primary objective was to test the hypothesis that exposure to moderate hyperoxia will induce injury to human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs), a model for studying the vascular endothelium under controlled conditions.
Design:
In-vitro cell culture study.
Setting:
Department of Anaesthesia, General Intensive Care and Pain Management, Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Study period from the beginning of October 2013 to the end of July 2014.
Cells:
HUVECs were isolated from fresh umbilical cords.
Interventions:
HUVECs were exposed to constant hyperoxia (40% O2), cyclic hyperoxia/anoxia (40%/0% O2, average 20% O2), constant normoxia (21% O2) and constant anoxia (0% O2) using a cell culture bioreactor.
Main Outcome Measures:
Cell growth, viability and release of IL-6, IL-8 and macrophage migration inhibitory factor were assessed at baseline and after 6, 12, 24 and 48 h of treatment. A phosphokinase array was performed after 60 min of treatment to identify activated cellular signalling pathways.
Results:
Constant hyperoxia and cyclic hyperoxia/anoxia impeded cell growth, reduced viability, triggered a proinflammatory response, proven by IL-6, IL-8 and migration inhibitory factor release, and induced apoptosis and necrosis. The inflammatory and cytotoxicity responses were highest in the constant hyperoxia group. Phosphokinase arrays revealed that different O2 concentrations activated distinct sets of cytoprotective and cell death-associated kinases, including mitogen-activated protein kinases, Src kinases, p53, Akt, mitogen-activated and stress-activated kinase, Lyn, Lck, p70S6, signal transducers and activators of transcription 5b and 6, glycogen synthase kinase 3a/b and 5' AMP-activated protein kinases 1/2.
Conclusion:
Continuous moderate hyperoxia and cyclic moderate hyperoxia/anoxia-induced endothelial inflammation, apoptosis and necrosis. Given the large surface area of the vascular endothelium, moderately elevated O2 levels may contribute to cardiovascular inflammation and injury.
Trial Registration:
This in-vitro study was not registered in a database.
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