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Vet Immunol Immunopathol ; 101(3-4): 235-42, 2004 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15350753

RESUMO

Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is a collagenous calcium-dependent lectin constitutively expressed by alveolar type II pneumocytes and non-ciliated bronchiolar epithelial (Clara) cells. It binds to surface glycoconjugates expressed by a wide variety of microorganisms such as Gram-negative bacteria, influenza A virus, and various fungi, leading to pathogen inactivation or enhanced neutrophil and macrophage activity. Since a hallmark of bronchopneumonia is the initiation of inflammation in the bronchi and bronchoalveolar junction, we chose a classic ruminant model of bronchopneumonia caused by Mannheimia haemolytica to study the expression of SP-D within the bronchioles of infected lambs. Healthy weaned lambs were inoculated with either pyrogen-free saline (controls) or M. haemolytica intrabronchially using a fiber-optic bronchoscope. SP-D protein and mRNA expression in lung was detected by immunohistochemistry (IHC) and fluorogenic real-time relative quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (real-time RT-PCR), respectively, during acute (1 day), subacute (15 days), and chronic (45 days) bronchopneumonia. At 15 and 45 days post-inoculation, areas of lung had peribronchiolar inflammatory cell infiltrate, epithelial cell hyperplasia, tortuosity of the airway lumens, and decreased intensity of SP-D protein staining and number of positive cells. The levels of SP-D mRNA were not increased or significantly altered by M. haemolytica infection when compared to control animals. In conclusion, cell-associated SP-D protein expression significantly decreases within hyperplastic epithelium of lungs from infected animals during chronic bronchopneumonia. Exhaustion of SP-D protein reserves and absence of SP-D gene upregulation during the progression of bacterial pneumonia into chronicity may result in failure to clear the pathogen from the lung and/or cause animals to be more susceptible to re-infection.


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Mannheimia haemolytica/imunologia , Pasteurelose Pneumônica/metabolismo , Proteína D Associada a Surfactante Pulmonar/biossíntese , Doenças dos Ovinos/metabolismo , Animais , Células Epiteliais/imunologia , Células Epiteliais/metabolismo , Feminino , Imuno-Histoquímica/veterinária , Masculino , Pasteurelose Pneumônica/imunologia , Pasteurelose Pneumônica/microbiologia , Pasteurelose Pneumônica/patologia , Proteína D Associada a Surfactante Pulmonar/genética , Proteína D Associada a Surfactante Pulmonar/imunologia , RNA Mensageiro/biossíntese , RNA Mensageiro/genética , Distribuição Aleatória , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa/veterinária , Ovinos , Doenças dos Ovinos/imunologia , Doenças dos Ovinos/microbiologia , Doenças dos Ovinos/patologia
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