Endotoxin tolerance protects against local hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury in the rat

Abstract

Liver surgery and liver transplantation as well as circulatory shock are often associated with hepatic ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Recent evidence suggests that TNF-α plays a central role in I/R injury and, therefore, down-regulation of TNF-α seems to be a promising way to protect against the deleterious consequences of I/R. Endotoxin tolerance represents a state of unresponsiveness to endotoxin and is associated with diminished TNF-α production. Thus, the effect of endotoxin tolerance on hepatic I/R injury of the liver was investigated in a rat model. I/R injury was induced by temporary ischemia of the left lateral liver lobe for 90 min followed by a 3 h observation period of reperfusion. I/R injury resulted in functional hepatic disorder characterized by a decrease both in bile flow and bile acid concentration and 50% mortality. This was prevented by induction of endotoxin tolerance. Hepatic TNF-α mRNA expression after I/R of the liver was determined by RT-PCR. In untreated rats, TNF-α mRNA was induced in the liver 60 min after reperfusion and further increased until 3 h after reperfusion. In contrast, in endotoxin-tolerant rats, no increases in TNF-α mRNA expression were detected. This suggests that induction of endotoxin tolerance protects against hepatic I/R injury possibly via down-regulation of intra-organ TNF-α expression.

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