Brain trauma leads to enhanced lung inflammation and injury: evidence for role of P4504Fs in resolution.

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury is known to cause several secondary effects, which lead to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. An acute systemic inflammatory response seems to play an integral role in the development of such complications providing the potential for massive secondary injury. We show that a contusion injury to the rat brain causes large migration of inflammatory cells (especially macrophages and neutrophils) in the major airways and alveolar spaces at 24 h post-injury, which is associated with enhanced pulmonary leukotriene B4 (LTB4) production within the lung. However, by 2 weeks after injury, a temporal switch occurs and the resolution of inflammation is underway. We provide evidence that 5-lipoxygenase and Cytochrome P450 4Fs (CYP4Fs), the respective enzymes responsible for LTB4 synthesis and breakdown, play crucial roles in setting the cellular concentration of LTB4. Activation of LTB4 breakdown via induction of CYP4Fs, predominantly in the lung tissue, serves as an endogenous signal to ameliorate further secondary damage. In addition, we show that CYP4Fs are localized primarily in the airways and pulmonary endothelium. Given the fact that adherence to the microvascular endothelium is an initial step in neutrophil diapedesis, the temporally regulated LTB4 clearance in the endothelium presents a novel focus for treatment of pulmonary inflammation after injury.

• Authors: Auinash Kalsotra, Jing Zhao, Sayeepriyadarshini Anakk, Pramod K Dash, Henry W Strobel
• Journal: Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (J Cereb Blood Flow Metab) Vol. 27 Issue 5 Pg. 963-74 (May 2007) ISSN: 0271-678X [Print] United States
• PMID: 16985506 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.)

Chemical References

• Proteins
• Leukotriene B4
• RNA
• Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System

Topics

• Accidents, Traffic
• Animals
• Blood-Brain Barrier (physiology)
• Blotting, Western
• Brain Injuries (complications, enzymology, pathology)
• Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid (cytology)
• Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System (physiology)
• Female
• Humans
• Immunoenzyme Techniques
• Immunohistochemistry
• Leukotriene B4 (analysis, metabolism)
• Lung (metabolism, pathology)
• Lung Diseases (enzymology, etiology, pathology)
• Male
• Microscopy, Confocal
• Pneumonia (enzymology, etiology, pathology)
• Proteins (chemistry, metabolism)
• RNA (biosynthesis, genetics)
• Rats
• Rats, Long-Evans
• Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction