The most abundant microflora is present in the distal parts of gut and the majority of the bacteria are Gram-negative anaerobes. Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), one of the ¡§pathogen-recognition molecules¡¨, recognize the lipopolysaccharide (LPS), derived from Gram-negative bacteria. TLR4 recognized the intestinal microflora and triggers the inflammatory responses. Although the effect of intestinal microflora on enhancing host to response the challenge from bacteria has been established, the mechanism has not been well studied. In this study, the relationship between TLR4 expression and the inflammatory response under intestinal microflora depletion was investigated. Mice fed with antibiotics for 4 weeks to delete the intestinal commensals and supplemented with or without LPS to stimulate TLR4 at week 3 were under sham or burn treatment. Results showed that thermal injury intestinal permeability, bacterial translocation to mesenteric lymph nodes, and neutrophil deposition in lung. Also, the activation of NF-£MB, expression of HSP70 and TLR4 were induced in intestinal after thermal injury. Moreover, TLR4 expression was increased in lung and peritoneal cells, ICAM and TNF-£\ expression were increased in peritoneal cells after thermal injury. However, NF-£MB activation, expression of TLR4, ICAM, and HSP70 were decreased in intestinal mucosa of mice with microflora depletion after thermal injury. Microflora depletion also significantly decreased the MPO activity in lung, and the phagocytic activity, the TLR4, ICAM, and TNF-£\ expression of peritoneal cells after thermal injury. Interestingly, LPS supplement reversed the effect of microflora depletion, suggest that intestinal microflora can trigger the host defense through TLR4 signaling pathway in thermal injured mice.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0123107-121046 |
| Date | 23 January 2007 |
| Creators | Chang, Wei-Jung |
| Contributors | Ming-Hong Tai, Jong-Kang Liu, Ching-Mei Hsu, Lee-Wei Chen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0123107-121046 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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