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β-Defensin 2 Ameliorates Lung Injury Caused by Pseudomonas Infection and Regulates Proinflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Rat
An important member of the defensin family, β-defensin 2, is believed to play an important role in defense against foreign pathogens. In the present study, we constructed lentiviral vectors to express and knockdown β-defensin 2 in rat lungs. The results showed that the infection of β-defensin 2 over...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4159799/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25079443 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms150813372 |
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author | Shen, Zhenwei Fang, Lu Zhao, Liming Lei, Han |
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description | An important member of the defensin family, β-defensin 2, is believed to play an important role in defense against foreign pathogens. In the present study, we constructed lentiviral vectors to express and knockdown β-defensin 2 in rat lungs. The results showed that the infection of β-defensin 2 overexpression lentivirus and β-defensin 2 shRNA effectively increased and suppressed the expression of β-defensin 2 in rat lung, respectively. The overexpression of β-defensin 2 mediated by the lentiviral vector protected lung from infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but shRNA targeting β-defensin 2 aggregated the damage of lung. In addition, we also found that β-defensin 2 overexpression increased basal expression of anti-inflammatory cytokine such as IL-4, IL-10 and IL-13 and decreased levels of proinflammatory cytokines which include IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-18, and TNF-α. Moreover, in the process of cytokine regulation, NF-κB pathway may be involved. Taken together, these data suggest that β-defensin 2 has protective effects against infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in rat and plays a role in inflammatory regulation by adjusting cytokine levels. |
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spelling | pubmed-41597992014-09-18 β-Defensin 2 Ameliorates Lung Injury Caused by Pseudomonas Infection and Regulates Proinflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Rat Shen, Zhenwei Fang, Lu Zhao, Liming Lei, Han Int J Mol Sci Article An important member of the defensin family, β-defensin 2, is believed to play an important role in defense against foreign pathogens. In the present study, we constructed lentiviral vectors to express and knockdown β-defensin 2 in rat lungs. The results showed that the infection of β-defensin 2 overexpression lentivirus and β-defensin 2 shRNA effectively increased and suppressed the expression of β-defensin 2 in rat lung, respectively. The overexpression of β-defensin 2 mediated by the lentiviral vector protected lung from infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, but shRNA targeting β-defensin 2 aggregated the damage of lung. In addition, we also found that β-defensin 2 overexpression increased basal expression of anti-inflammatory cytokine such as IL-4, IL-10 and IL-13 and decreased levels of proinflammatory cytokines which include IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-5, IL-6, IL-8, IL-18, and TNF-α. Moreover, in the process of cytokine regulation, NF-κB pathway may be involved. Taken together, these data suggest that β-defensin 2 has protective effects against infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in rat and plays a role in inflammatory regulation by adjusting cytokine levels. MDPI 2014-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4159799/ /pubmed/25079443 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms150813372 Text en © 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Shen, Zhenwei Fang, Lu Zhao, Liming Lei, Han β-Defensin 2 Ameliorates Lung Injury Caused by Pseudomonas Infection and Regulates Proinflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Rat |
title | β-Defensin 2 Ameliorates Lung Injury Caused by Pseudomonas Infection and Regulates Proinflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Rat |
title_full | β-Defensin 2 Ameliorates Lung Injury Caused by Pseudomonas Infection and Regulates Proinflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Rat |
title_fullStr | β-Defensin 2 Ameliorates Lung Injury Caused by Pseudomonas Infection and Regulates Proinflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Rat |
title_full_unstemmed | β-Defensin 2 Ameliorates Lung Injury Caused by Pseudomonas Infection and Regulates Proinflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Rat |
title_short | β-Defensin 2 Ameliorates Lung Injury Caused by Pseudomonas Infection and Regulates Proinflammatory and Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines in Rat |
title_sort | β-defensin 2 ameliorates lung injury caused by pseudomonas infection and regulates proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines in rat |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4159799/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25079443 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms150813372 |
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