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ArticleInflammation2011

Acute lung inflammation in Klebsiella pneumoniae B5055-induced pneumonia and sepsis in BALB/c mice: a comparative study.

Vijay Kumar, Sanjay Chhibber

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Article in Inflammation, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Vijay KumarDepartment of Microbiology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, 160014, India. vij_tox@yahoo.com
Sanjay Chhibber
Panjab University · IN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lungs play an important role in the body's defense against a variety of pathogens, but this network of immune system-mediated defense can be deregulated during acute pulmonary infections. The present study compares acute lung inflammation occurring during Klebsiella pneumoniae B5055-induced pneumonia and sepsis in BALB/c mice. Pneumonia was induced by intranasal instillation of bacteria (10(4) cfu), while sepsis was developed by placing the fibrin-thrombin clot containing known amount of bacteria (10(2) cfu) into the peritoneal cavity of animals. Mice with sepsis showed 100% mortality within five post-infection days, whereas all the animals with pneumonia survived. In animals suffering from K. pneumoniae B5055-induced pneumonia, all the inflammatory parameters (TNF-α, IL-1α, MPO, MDA, and NO) were found to be maximum till third post-infection day, after that, a decline was observed, whereas in septic animals, all the above-mentioned markers of inflammation kept on increasing. Histopathological study showed presence of alternatively activated alveolar macrophages (or foam cells) in lungs of mice with pneumonia after third post-infection day, which might have contributed to the induction of resolution of inflammation, but no such observation was made in lungs of septic mice. Hence, during pneumonia, controlled activation of macrophages may lead to resolution of inflammation.

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AnimalsBacterial LoadImmunity, InnateInflammation MediatorsInterleukin-1alphaKlebsiella InfectionsKlebsiella pneumoniaeLungMacrophage ActivationMalondialdehydeMiceMice, Inbred BALB CNitric OxidePeroxidasePneumonia, BacterialSepsisInflammation MediatorsInterleukin-1alphaMalondialdehydeNitric OxidePeroxidaseTumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

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PMID20890649
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