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(American Journal of Pathology. 2007;170:1820-1830.)
© 2007 American Society for Investigative Pathology
DOI: 10.2353/ajpath.2007.061093

Renal Hemodynamic, Inflammatory, and Apoptotic Responses to Lipopolysaccharide in HO-1–/– Mice

Michal J. Tracz*, Julio P. Juncos*, Joseph P. Grande*{dagger}, Anthony J. Croatt*, Allan W. Ackerman*, Govindarajan Rajagopalan{ddagger}, Keith L. Knutson{ddagger}, Andrew D. Badley§, Matthew D. Griffin*, Jawed Alam|| and Karl A. Nath*

From the Divisions of Nephrology and Hypertension* and Infectious Diseases,§ the Departments of Pathology{dagger} and Immunology,{ddagger} and the Program in Translational Immunovirology and Biodefense, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota; and the Department of Molecular Genetics,|| Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana

Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces the stress-responsive gene heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1). The present study examined the significance of HO-1 in response to LPS. In HO-1–/– mice, as compared with HO-1+/+ mice, LPS provoked a greater reduction in glomerular filtration rate and renal blood flow, increased renal cytokine expression, and increased activation of nuclear factor (NF)-{kappa}B. Conversely, HO-1-overexpressing renal epithelial cells, exposed to LPS, exhibited a blunted activation of NF-{kappa}B and less phosphorylation of its inhibitor, I{kappa}B. In HO-1–/– mice, as compared with HO-1+/+ mice, LPS provoked markedly greater elevations in serum levels of Th1 cytokines, Th2 cytokines, chemokines, and cytokines that stimulate bone marrow progenitors. The liver, a major source of serum cytokines, showed an increased activation of NF-{kappa}B in LPS-treated HO-1–/– mice. In addition, LPS provoked widespread apoptosis of immune cells in the spleen and thymus in HO-1–/– mice but not in HO-1+/+ mice. We conclude that HO-1 deficiency exhibits a heightened and dysregulated inflammatory response to LPS accompanied by greater impairment in renal hemodynamic response and widespread apoptosis of immune cells. Because polymorphisms in the HO-1 gene with diminished HO activity predispose to human disease, we speculate that our findings may be relevant to the clinical outcome in patients with sepsis syndromes.





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