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- Title
L-Arginine: A Unique Amino Acid for Improving Depressed Wound Immune Function following Hemorrhage.
- Authors
Angele, Martin K.; Nitsch, Stefan M.; Hatz, Rudolf A.; Angele, Peter; Hernandez-Richter, Thomas; Wichmann, Mathias W.; Chaudry, Irshad H.; Schildberg, Friedrich W.
- Abstract
Objective: To determine whether L-arginine has any salutary effects on wound immune cell function following trauma-hemorrhage. Background: Depressed wound immune function contributes to an increased incidence of wound infections following hemorrhage. Although administration of L-arginine has been shown to restore depressed cell-mediated immune responses following hemorrhage potentially by maintaining organ blood flow, it remains unknown whether L-arginine has any salutary effects on the depressed local immune response at the wound site. Methods: Male mice were subjected to a midline laparotomy and polyvinyl sponges were implanted subcutaneously in the abdominal wound prior to hemorrhage (35 ± 5 mm Hg for 90 min and resuscitation) or sham operation. During resuscitation mice received 300 mg/kg body weight L-arginine or saline (vehicle). Sponges were harvested 24 h thereafter, wound fluid collected and wound immune cells cultured for 24 h in the presence of LPS. Pro- (IL-1β, IL-6) and anti-inflammatory (IL-10) cytokines were determined in the supernatants and the wound fluid. In addition, wounds were stained for IL-6 immunohistochemically. In a separate set of animals, skin and muscle blood flow was determined by microspheres. Results: The capacity of wound immune cells to release IL-1β and IL-6 in vitro was significantly depressed in hemorrhaged mice receiving vehicle. Administration of L-arginine, however, improved wound immune cell function. In contrast, in vivo the increased IL-6 release at the wound site was decreased in L-arginine-treated mice following hemorrhage. Moreover, IL-10 levels were significantly increased in the wound fluid in hemorrhaged animals receiving L-arginine compared to vehicle-treated mice. In addition, the depressed skin and muscle blood flow after hemorrhage was restored by L-arginine. Conclusions: Thus, L-arginine might improve local wound cell function by decreasing the inflammatory response at the wound site. Since L-arginine protected wound immune cell function this amino acid might represent a novel and useful adjunct to fluid resuscitation for decreasing wound complications following hemorrhage.Copyright © 2002 S. Karger AG, Basel
- Subjects
HEMORRHAGE complications; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; ARGININE; SURGICAL site infections
- Publication
European Surgical Research, 2002, Vol 34, Issue 1/2, p53
- ISSN
0014-312X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000048888