한빛사논문, 상위피인용논문
Inwon Park1, Mingyo Kim4, Kibaek Choe2,3, Eunjoo Song2,3, Howon Seo2,3, Yoonha Hwang2,3, Jinhyo Ahn2,3, Seung-Hyo Lee1, Jae Hyuk Lee5, You Hwan Jo5, Kyuseok Kim5, Gou Young Koh1,6,*, and Pilhan Kim1,2,3,*
1 Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
2 Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
3 KI for Health Science and Technology (KIHST), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
4 Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine, Jinju, Gyeongsangnam-do, 52727, Republic of Korea
5 Department of Emergency Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH), Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 13620, Republic of Korea
6 Center for Vascular Research, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
*To whom correspondence should be addressed : Pilhan Kim, Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea, Gou Young Koh, Center for Vascular Research, IBS; Graduate School of Medical Science and Engineering, KAIST, 291 Daehak-ro, Daejeon, 34141, Republic of Korea
Abstract
The lung is highly vulnerable during sepsis, yet its functional deterioration accompanied by disturbances in the pulmonary microcirculation are poorly understood. This study aimed to investigate how the pulmonary microcirculation is distorted in sepsis-induced acute lung injury (ALI) and reveal the underlying cellular pathophysiologic mechanism.
Using a customized intravital lung microscopic imaging system in a murine model of sepsis-induced ALI, we achieved direct real-time visualization of the pulmonary microcirculation and circulating cells in vivo. We derived the functional capillary ratio (FCR) as a quantitative parameter for assessing the fraction of functional microvasculature in the pulmonary microcirculation and dead space.
We identified that the FCR rapidly decreases in the early stage of sepsis-induced ALI. The intravital imaging revealed that it was the result of the generation of dead space which was induced by prolonged neutrophil entrapment within the capillaries. We further showed that the neutrophils had an extended sequestration time and an arrest-like dynamic behavior, both of which triggered neutrophil aggregates inside the capillaries and arterioles. Finally, we found that Mac-1 (CD11b/CD18) was upregulated in the sequestered neutrophils and that a Mac-1 inhibitor restored the FCR and improved the hypoxemia.
With the intravital lung imaging system, we observed how Mac-1 upregulated neutrophil aggregates led to the generation of dead space in the pulmonary microcirculation and its improvement by a Mac-1 inhibitor in sepsis-induced ALI.
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