セキ マサフミ
SEK Masafumi
関 雅文 所属 埼玉医科大学 医学部 国際医療センター 感染症科・感染制御科 職種 教授 |
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論文種別 | 学術雑誌(原著) |
言語種別 | 英語 |
査読の有無 | 査読あり |
表題 | Increase of apoptosis in a murine model for severe pneumococcal pneumonia during influenza A virus infection. |
掲載誌名 | 正式名:Japanese journal of infectious diseases ISSNコード:13446304 |
巻・号・頁 | 64(6),451-7頁 |
著者・共著者 | Kosuke Kosai,Masafumi Seki,Akitaka Tanaka,Yoshitomo Morinaga,Yoshifumi Imamura,Koichi Izumikawa,Hiroshi Kakeya,Yoshihiro Yamamoto,Katsunori Yanagihara,Kazunori Tomono,Shigeru Kohno |
発行年月 | 2011 |
概要 | The mechanisms of severe pneumonia caused by co-infection of bacteria and influenza A virus (IAV) have not been fully elucidated. We examined apoptosis and inflammatory responses in a murine model for pneumococcal pneumonia during IAV infection. Inflammation, respiratory epithelium apoptosis, and inflammatory-cell infiltration increased in a time dependent manner in the lungs of mice co-infected with Streptococcus pneumoniae and IAV, in comparison with those infected with either S. pneumoniae or IAV. According to appearance of terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP-mediated nick-end labeling positive cells, caspases-3 and -8 were activated 24 h after S. pneumoniae infection, and caspase-3 activation decreased after 48 h, whereas inflammatory cytokine levels continued to increase in co-infected mice. In contrast, in mice infected with either IAV or S. pneumoniae, apoptosis and activation of factors related to caspase-3 peaked at 48 h. Furthermore, Fas-associated death domain was significantly expressed in the lungs of co-infected mice 24 h after S. pneumoniae infection. These data suggest that early onset of apoptosis and its related factors play important roles in fulminant pne |
PMID | 22116322 |