Hyaluronan reflects the pre-fibrotic inflammation in irradiated rat lung: concomitant analysis of parenchymal tissues and bronchoalveolar lavage
(1990) In International Journal of Radiation Biology 58(3). p.519-530- Abstract
- The pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis is a complicated chain of interactions between cells and molecules. During recent years bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in patients with various interstitial lung disorders has increased our knowledge of the fibrosis process and focused on new interesting interactions. Here we present an animal model which makes it possible to apply both morphological and immunohistochemical tissue staining to perform bronchoalveolar lavage in the same animal. Irradiation is an established method for experimentally evoking lung fibrosis in animals. Rats received irradiation (30 Gy) to the lower parts of both lungs. Bronchoalveolar lavage was performed in the right lung. The biochemical determination of lavage... (More)
- The pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis is a complicated chain of interactions between cells and molecules. During recent years bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) in patients with various interstitial lung disorders has increased our knowledge of the fibrosis process and focused on new interesting interactions. Here we present an animal model which makes it possible to apply both morphological and immunohistochemical tissue staining to perform bronchoalveolar lavage in the same animal. Irradiation is an established method for experimentally evoking lung fibrosis in animals. Rats received irradiation (30 Gy) to the lower parts of both lungs. Bronchoalveolar lavage was performed in the right lung. The biochemical determination of lavage concentration of hyaluronan (HA) and cellular differential counts were compared with interstitial morphology. Animals were sacrificed and analysed 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 weeks after irradiation. After 6 weeks a massive increase in connective tissue mast cells was seen in the peribronchial and alveolar-interstitial tissue. This mastocytosis was closely related to a marked increase in HA. It became obvious that, in this model, cellular analysis of BAL fluid did not correctly reflect the cellular changes in the lung interstitium. While BAL revealed a pronounced increase of neutrophils with no--or only very few--mast cells, a concomitant increase in mononuclear cells and mast cells was seen in the lung interstitium. In contrast an increase in HA in BAL correlated well with an increase in HA-deposition in the lung interstitium, indicating that measurement of a non-cellular component, such as HA, may better reflect the tissue inflammation. (Less)
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- Nilsson, K ; Henriksson, R ; Hellstrom, S ; Tengblad, A and Bjermer, Leif LU
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- 1990
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- International Journal of Radiation Biology
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- 58
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- 3
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- 519 - 530
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- Taylor & Francis
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- pmid:1975613
- scopus:0025063297
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- 0955-3002
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- 10.1080/09553009014551861
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title = {{Hyaluronan reflects the pre-fibrotic inflammation in irradiated rat lung: concomitant analysis of parenchymal tissues and bronchoalveolar lavage}},
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