Publication
Title
Mechanical ventilation induces interleukin 4 secretion in lungs and reduces the phagocytic capacity of lung macrophages
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Abstract
Patients receiving mechanical ventilation are at risk of developing ventilator-associated pneumonia. Here, we show that clinically utilized ventilation protocols in rats with 5 mL/kg or 8 mL/kg tidal volumes cause increased interleukin 4 (IL-4) expression, lowered ratio of TH1:TH2 transcriptional factors (Tbet:Gata3), and increased arginase 1positive (Arg1+) macrophages and eosinophils in lungs. Macrophages from ventilated lungs had reduced ex vivo capacity toward phagocytosing bacteria. Ventilated animals, when further challenged with bacterial pneumonia, continued to show persistence of Arg1+ M2 macrophages as well as an increased bacterial burden compared with spontaneously breathing animals receiving the same bacterial dose. Increased IL-4 expression also occurred in a mouse ventilation model, and abrogation of IL-4 signaling restored lung bacterial burden in an IL-4Rα−/− ventilator-associated pneumonia model. Our data suggest that mechanical ventilation induces an immunosuppressive state in lungs, providing new insight in the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Language
English
Source (journal)
The journal of infectious diseases. - Chicago, Ill.
Publication
Chicago, Ill. : 2018
ISSN
0022-1899
DOI
10.1093/INFDIS/JIX573
Volume/pages
217 :10 (2018) , p. 1645-1655
ISI
000430729800019
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UAntwerpen
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Project info
Expression and role of dipeptidyl peptidases and related peptidases in acute lung injury.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Web of Science
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Last edited 09.10.2023
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