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  • Title: Control of endotoxin shock by the dried preparation of low virulent Streptococcus pyogenes OK-432.
    Author: Nose M, Uzawa A, Nomura M, Ikarashi Y, Nakata Y, Akashi M, Suzuki G.
    Journal: Cell Immunol; 1998 Sep 15; 188(2):97-104. PubMed ID: 9756639.
    Abstract:
    Bacterial endotoxin, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), is a causative agent of Gram-negative septic shock. However, if preadministered at a low dose, LPS makes mice resistant to subsequent endotoxin challenge, the phenomenon known as LPS tolerance. Here we demonstrated that the pharmaceutical preparation of Gram-positive Streptococcus pyogenes, OK-432, also induced a state analogous to LPS tolerance if administered 6-48 h prior to LPS challenge. The preadministration of OK-432 increased the lethal dose of LPS threefold in BDF1 mice, and this was accompanied by reduced gene expression of IL-6, IFN-gamma, inducible nitric oxide synthase, and IL-10 in spleen and peritoneal cells. Serum concentrations of IL-6 and IFN-gamma were also suppressed by the preadministration of OK-432. In contrast to the LPS tolerance, the levels of TNF-alpha mRNA were not suppressed in OK-432-administered mice, and their peritoneal cells produced high levels of TNF-alpha and soluble TNF receptor p75 in response to LPS in vitro. Peritoneal cells from OK-432 but not LPS-administered mice were hyporesponsive to IFN-gamma in terms of nitric oxide synthesis, and this hyporesponsiveness to IFN-gamma was abrogated by anti-IL-10 antibodies. Likewise, peritoneal cells from both OK-432- and LPS-administered mice were hyporesponsive to LPS, serum, TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma, and PMA in terms of IL-6 production. Anti-IL-10 antibodies increased IL-6 production eightfold in cells from OK-432-administered mice, but marginally in cells from LPS-administered mice. Even in peritoneal cells from OK-432-administered mice, anti-IL-10 antibodies failed to fully restore IL-6 production. Thus, the hyporesponsive state of peritoneal cells was mediated by both IL-10-dependent and -independent mechanisms. These results demonstrated that OK-432 controlled endotoxin shock by blocking the cytokine cascade from TNF-alpha.
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