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Induction of acute endotoxemia resulted in a dramatic increase in their responsiveness to fMLP, which was evident in cells isolated 0.5 hours after treatment of the animals (Fig.
Acute endotoxemia caused a marked induction of Mcl-1 in freshly isolated adherent vascular lung neutrophils, which peaked between 2 and 12 hours and remained elevated for at least 48 hours.
Acute endotoxemia also resulted in a time dependent increase in TNF-α mRNA levels in adherent vascular lung neutrophils which was evident within 0.5 hours (Fig.
It is normally cleared from the blood by macrophages of the reticuloendothelial system predominantly localized in the liver [ 1 ] . Acute endotoxemia, characterized by excessive levels of endotoxin in the blood, can lead to endothelial injury, hypotension, multi-organ failure and death [ 1 ] . Endotoxin-induced tissue injury is associated with an inflammatory response and an accumulation of phagocytes at sites of damage.
Previous studies have demonstrated that acute endotoxemia activates peripheral blood neutrophils to release prostaglandins [ 17 ] . These lipid mediators are produced during inflammatory reactions largely via the enzyme COX-2 [ 18 ] . We found that COX-2 mRNA was markedly upregulated (40-400 fold) in adherent vascular lung neutrophils following endotoxin treatment of the animals (Fig.
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