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Heat-killed Salmonella typhimurium mitigated radiation-induced lung injury
- Source :
- Clinical and experimental pharmacologyphysiologyREFERENCES. 46(12)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Radiation-induced lung injury (RILI) is a serious complication in thoracic tumour radiotherapy. It often occurs in clinical chest radiotherapy and acute whole-body irradiation (WBI) caused by nuclear accidents or nuclear weapon attack. Some radioprotective agents have been reported to exert protective effects when given prior to radiation exposure, however, there is no treatment strategy available for preventing RILI. In this study, we demonstrated that heat-killed Salmonella typhimurium (HKST), a co-agonist of Toll-like receptors 2 (TLR2), Toll-like receptors 4 (TLR4) and Toll-like receptors 5 (TLR5), mitigated radiation-induced lung injury through the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signalling pathway. We found that HKST alleviated lung hyperaemia and pathological damage after irradiation, indicated that HKST inhibits the early inflammatory reaction of radiation-induced lung injury. Then, for the first time, we observed HKST reduced collagen deposit induced by irradiation in the later phase (7-14 week) of RILI, and we found that HKST inhibited radiation-induced cell apoptosis in lung tissues. We found that HKST reduced the level of TGF-β and regulated its downstream signalling pathway. Finally, it was found that HKST inhibited radiation-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in lung tissues. In conclusion, our data showed that HKST effectively mitigated RILI through regulating TGF-β, provide novel treatment strategy for RILI in whole-body irradiation and radiotherapy.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Salmonella typhimurium
Hot Temperature
Physiology
medicine.medical_treatment
Radiation-Protective Agents
Lung injury
03 medical and health sciences
Mice
0302 clinical medicine
Physiology (medical)
medicine
Animals
Receptor
Lung
Pharmacology
Microbial Viability
business.industry
Lung Injury
medicine.disease
Radiation therapy
Mice, Inbred C57BL
Radiation Injuries, Experimental
030104 developmental biology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Radiation-induced lung injury
Apoptosis
Gamma Rays
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
TLR4
Cancer research
Female
business
Transforming growth factor
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14401681
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical and experimental pharmacologyphysiologyREFERENCES
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f4ad511ef7a0de69680b2c858ef3ca89