Host responses to sepsis vary in different low-lethality murine models.
<h4>Introduction</h4>Animal models for the study of sepsis are being increasingly scrutinized, despite their essential role for early translational research. In particular, recent studies have suggested that at the level of the leukocyte transcriptome, murine models of burns, trauma and...
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| author | Lori F Gentile Dina C Nacionales M Cecilia Lopez Erin Vanzant Angela Cuenca Benjamin E Szpila Alex G Cuenca Anna Joseph Frederick A Moore Christiaan Leeuwenburgh Henry V Baker Lyle L Moldawer Philip A Efron |
| author_facet | Lori F Gentile Dina C Nacionales M Cecilia Lopez Erin Vanzant Angela Cuenca Benjamin E Szpila Alex G Cuenca Anna Joseph Frederick A Moore Christiaan Leeuwenburgh Henry V Baker Lyle L Moldawer Philip A Efron |
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| description | <h4>Introduction</h4>Animal models for the study of sepsis are being increasingly scrutinized, despite their essential role for early translational research. In particular, recent studies have suggested that at the level of the leukocyte transcriptome, murine models of burns, trauma and endotoxemia markedly differ from their human equivalents, and are only weakly similar amongst themselves. We compared the plasma cytokine and leukocyte transcriptome responses between two different low-lethality murine models of polymicrobial intra-abdominal sepsis.<h4>Methods</h4>Six to ten week male C57BL/6j mice underwent either the 'gold standard' cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) model of intra-abdominal sepsis or administration of a cecal slurry (CS), where cecal contents are injected intraperitoneally. Surviving mice were euthanized at two hours, one or three days after sepsis.<h4>Results</h4>The murine leukocyte transcriptomic response to the CLP and CS models of sepsis was surprisingly dissimilar at two hours, one, and three days after sepsis. The Pearson correlation coefficient for the maximum change in expression for the entire leukocyte transcriptome that changed significantly over time (n = 19,071) was R = 0.54 (R2 = 0.297). The CS model resulted in greater magnitude of early inflammatory gene expression changes in response to sepsis with associated increased production of inflammatory chemokines and cytokines. Two hours after sepsis, CLP had more significant expression of genes associated with IL-10 signaling pathways, whereas CS had greater expression of genes related to CD28, apoptosis, IL-1 and T-cell receptor signaling. By three days, the changes in gene expression in both sepsis models were returning to baseline in surviving animals.<h4>Conclusion</h4>These analyses reveal that the murine blood leukocyte response to sepsis is highly dependent on which model of intra-abdominal sepsis is employed, despite their similar lethality. It may be difficult to extrapolate findings from one murine model to another, let alone to human sepsis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3c84415d1f584ee89b76d5879e500e322025-08-20T02:14:53ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032014-01-0195e9440410.1371/journal.pone.0094404Host responses to sepsis vary in different low-lethality murine models.Lori F GentileDina C NacionalesM Cecilia LopezErin VanzantAngela CuencaBenjamin E SzpilaAlex G CuencaAnna JosephFrederick A MooreChristiaan LeeuwenburghHenry V BakerLyle L MoldawerPhilip A Efron<h4>Introduction</h4>Animal models for the study of sepsis are being increasingly scrutinized, despite their essential role for early translational research. In particular, recent studies have suggested that at the level of the leukocyte transcriptome, murine models of burns, trauma and endotoxemia markedly differ from their human equivalents, and are only weakly similar amongst themselves. We compared the plasma cytokine and leukocyte transcriptome responses between two different low-lethality murine models of polymicrobial intra-abdominal sepsis.<h4>Methods</h4>Six to ten week male C57BL/6j mice underwent either the 'gold standard' cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) model of intra-abdominal sepsis or administration of a cecal slurry (CS), where cecal contents are injected intraperitoneally. Surviving mice were euthanized at two hours, one or three days after sepsis.<h4>Results</h4>The murine leukocyte transcriptomic response to the CLP and CS models of sepsis was surprisingly dissimilar at two hours, one, and three days after sepsis. The Pearson correlation coefficient for the maximum change in expression for the entire leukocyte transcriptome that changed significantly over time (n = 19,071) was R = 0.54 (R2 = 0.297). The CS model resulted in greater magnitude of early inflammatory gene expression changes in response to sepsis with associated increased production of inflammatory chemokines and cytokines. Two hours after sepsis, CLP had more significant expression of genes associated with IL-10 signaling pathways, whereas CS had greater expression of genes related to CD28, apoptosis, IL-1 and T-cell receptor signaling. By three days, the changes in gene expression in both sepsis models were returning to baseline in surviving animals.<h4>Conclusion</h4>These analyses reveal that the murine blood leukocyte response to sepsis is highly dependent on which model of intra-abdominal sepsis is employed, despite their similar lethality. It may be difficult to extrapolate findings from one murine model to another, let alone to human sepsis.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0094404&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Lori F Gentile Dina C Nacionales M Cecilia Lopez Erin Vanzant Angela Cuenca Benjamin E Szpila Alex G Cuenca Anna Joseph Frederick A Moore Christiaan Leeuwenburgh Henry V Baker Lyle L Moldawer Philip A Efron Host responses to sepsis vary in different low-lethality murine models. PLoS ONE |
| title | Host responses to sepsis vary in different low-lethality murine models. |
| title_full | Host responses to sepsis vary in different low-lethality murine models. |
| title_fullStr | Host responses to sepsis vary in different low-lethality murine models. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Host responses to sepsis vary in different low-lethality murine models. |
| title_short | Host responses to sepsis vary in different low-lethality murine models. |
| title_sort | host responses to sepsis vary in different low lethality murine models |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0094404&type=printable |
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