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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-1-5
pubmed:abstractText
The decreased production of antimicrobial peptides in tissues surrounding the burn sites has been described in patients with severe burn injury. Small numbers of Pseudomonas aeruginosa spread easily to the whole body of burn mice when infected at burn site tissues. Gr-1(+)CD11b(+) cells, demonstrated in tissues surrounding the burn site, are inhibitory on the production of antimicrobial peptides by EK. In this paper, the decreased production of antimicrobial peptides by EK influenced by Gr-1(+)CD11b(+) cells was shown to be restored by glycyrrhizin. CCL2 and IL-10 were determined to be effector soluble factors for the suppressor activities of Gr-1(+)CD11b(+) cells on antimicrobial peptide production by EK. However, Gr-1(+)CD11b(+) cells, which were treated previously with glycyrrhizin, did not produce these soluble factors. Also, sepsis stemming from P. aeruginosa burn-site infection was not demonstrated in burn mice treated with glycyrrhizin. These results suggest that through the improved production of antimicrobial peptides in tissues surrounding the burn area, sepsis stemming from P. aeruginosa wound infection is controllable by glycyrrhizin in severely burned mice.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
1938-3673
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
87
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
35-41
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Burns, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Chemokine CCL2, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Drug Evaluation, Preclinical, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Glycyrrhizic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Interleukin-10, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Interleukins, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Keratinocytes, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Mice, Inbred BALB C, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Pseudomonas Infections, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Pseudomonas aeruginosa, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-T-Lymphocyte Subsets, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-Wound Infection, pubmed-meshheading:19843573-beta-Defensins
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Pivotal advance: glycyrrhizin restores the impaired production of beta-defensins in tissues surrounding the burn area and improves the resistance of burn mice to Pseudomonas aeruginosa wound infection.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't