Laboratory Animal and Comparative Medicine ›› 2021, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (3): 238-243.DOI: 10.12300/j.issn.1674-5817.2020.119

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Changes of C-reactive Protein and Inflammatory Factors in Juema Pig Model with High Altitude Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

XIAO Pan1, NIU Tingxian1, LUO Xiaohong2, WANG Hongyi1, GUO Xiaoyu1, LU Lu1, FENG Xiaoming1   

  1. 1. Department of Basic Medical Laboratory, Joint Service Support Unit Army No. 940 Hospital of PLA, Lanzhou 730050, China;
    2. Department of Endocrine, Joint Service Support Unit Army No. 940 Hospital of PLA, Lanzhou 730050, China
  • Received:2020-08-14 Revised:2021-01-14 Online:2021-06-25 Published:2021-07-05
  • Contact: FENG Xiaoming, E-mail: fxm8006@163.com

Abstract: Objective To investigate the changes of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-1β (IL-1α) and C-reactive protein (CRP) in the development of inflammation in the Juma pig odel with high altitude multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (H-MODS). Methods Three doses (0.25, 0.35, and 0.50 mg/kg) of endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS) were used to induce the H-MODS model (group B, C and D), and normal saline was used as control (group A). The serum levels of TNF-α, IL-1β and CRP were detected at different time points. Results The expression levels of TNF-α and IL-1β increased sharply after LPS infusion to the pigs, and reached the highest level at 6 h; the levels at 3-12 h of the pigs treated with LPS were increased compared with the level at 0 h of the pigs with the same treatment and the level of compared group A at the same time point (P < 0.05 or P < 0.01), and then decreased gradually. The expression levels of TNF-α at 24 h in groups B and D were significantly higher than that in the same group at 0 h and group A at the same time point (P < 0.05), and the expression level of TNF-α was significantly higher in group B than that in group A at 72 h (P < 0.05). The expression level of IL-1β at 24 h in group D was higher than that at 0 h and that in group A at the same time point (P < 0.05), and then decreased gradually. Compared with 0 h and group A, the expression levels of IL-1α in group D decreased significantly at 48 h and 72 h (P < 0.05 or P < 0.01). After intravenous infusion of LPS, the expression levels of CRP in groups B, C and D began to increase, and reached the maximum at 24-48 h; the expression levels of CRP in the other groups at 6-72 h were significantly higher than those in group A and at 0 h (P < 0.05 or P < 0.01). Conclusion Severe inflammatory reaction occurs during the development of H-MODS, and the expressions of inflammatory factors TNF-α and IL-1β increase rapidly first and then decrease sharply under immune regulation, displaying large fluctuations in short time until achieving an equilibrium; the CRP expression changes slowly throughout the inflammatory reaction in vivo.

Key words: High altitude multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, Juema pigs, Tumor necrosis factor-α, Interleukin-1β, C-reactive protein

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