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J Appl Physiol 80: 564-573, 1996;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 80, Issue 2 564-573, Copyright © 1996 by American Physiological Society

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TNF-alpha and the pathophysiology of endotoxin-induced acute respiratory failure in sheep

S. Z. Perkowski, P. J. Sloane, J. A. Spath Jr, T. H. Elsasser, J. K. Fisher and M. H. Gee
Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelpha 19104, USA.

We studied changes in cardiovascular and pulmonary function during prolonged endotoxemia in conscious sheep. Sheep with chronic lung lymph fistulas received a 12-h infusion of Escherichia coli endotoxin (10 ng x kg-1 x min-1) and allowed to recover for 12 h. Supportive therapies were withheld. Prolonged endotoxemia without volume support caused systemic hypotension associated with reduced cardiac output and increased systemic vascular resistance, pulmonary hypertension, and acute lung injury with progressive respiratory failure. Plasma tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) concentrations increased transiently. Sustained pulmonary hypertension and increased pulmonary and systemic vascular resistances contributed to a poor outcome in 9 of 34 sheep (26%). Plasma TNF-alpha concentrations were significantly greater in survivors with sustained pulmonary hypertension and in nonsurviving sheep than in surviving sheep without pulmonary hypertension. Endotoxin (1 ng/ml) increased neutrophil expression of TNF-alpha in vitro. Addition of interleukin-6 prevented this response. Synthesis and release of TNF-alpha may be an important proximal event influencing the development of sustained pulmonary hypertension and progressive respiratory failure with endotoxemia. Interleukin-6 may contribute to the phasic nature of the TNF-alpha response.


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