电子烟暴露增强慢性阻塞性肺疾病(COPD)小鼠的肺部炎症和纤维化反应。
Electronic Cigarette Exposure Enhances Lung Inflammatory and Fibrotic Responses in COPD Mice.
作者信息
Han Hongwei, Peng Guangda, Meister Maureen, Yao Hongwei, Yang Jenny J, Zou Ming-Hui, Liu Zhi-Ren, Ji Xiangming
机构信息
Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, United States.
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
出版信息
Front Pharmacol. 2021 Jul 28;12:726586. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2021.726586. eCollection 2021.
Although a few studies show that the use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) may ameliorate objective and subjective outcomes in COPD smokers who switched to electronic cigarettes, it is unclear whether e-cigarette exposure alters lung pathological features and inflammatory response in COPD. Here, we employed βENaC-overexpressing mice bearing COPD-like pulmonary abnormality, and exposed them to ENDS. We found that ENDS exposure aggravated airspace enlargement and mucus production in βENaC-overexpressing mice, which was associated with increased MMP12 and Muc5ac, respectively. ENDS exposure to mice significantly increased the numbers of macrophages, particularly in M2 macrophages in bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid, despite ENDS did not induce M2 macrophage polarization in a cultured murine macrophage cell line (RAW264.7). There were no changes in neutrophils in BAL fluid by ENDS exposure. Multiple cytokine productions were increased including M-CSF, IL-1r , IL-10, and TGF-β1, in BAL fluid from mice when exposed to ENDS. The Sirius Red staining and hydroxyproline assay showed ENDS-exposed mice displayed enhanced fibrotic phenotypes compared to control mice. In conclusion, ENDS exposure enhances airspace enlargement, mucus secretion, and fibrogenesis in COPD mice. This is associated with increased MMP12, inflammatory responses, and M2 macrophage phenotype. This study provides pre-clinical data implicating that electronic cigarette exposure is not safe in COPD patients who want to replace traditional cigarettes with ENDS.
尽管一些研究表明,使用电子尼古丁传送系统(ENDS)可能会改善转而使用电子烟的慢性阻塞性肺疾病(COPD)吸烟者的客观和主观结果,但尚不清楚接触电子烟是否会改变COPD患者的肺部病理特征和炎症反应。在此,我们使用了患有类似COPD肺部异常的βENaC过表达小鼠,并使其接触ENDS。我们发现,接触ENDS会加重βENaC过表达小鼠的气腔扩大和黏液分泌,这分别与MMP12和Muc5ac的增加有关。尽管ENDS在培养的小鼠巨噬细胞系(RAW264.7)中未诱导M2巨噬细胞极化,但接触ENDS会显著增加小鼠支气管肺泡灌洗(BAL)液中的巨噬细胞数量,尤其是M2巨噬细胞。接触ENDS后,BAL液中的中性粒细胞没有变化。接触ENDS的小鼠BAL液中多种细胞因子的产生增加,包括M-CSF、IL-1r 、IL-10和TGF-β1。天狼星红染色和羟脯氨酸测定显示,与对照小鼠相比,接触ENDS的小鼠表现出增强的纤维化表型。总之,接触ENDS会加剧COPD小鼠的气腔扩大、黏液分泌和纤维化。这与MMP12增加、炎症反应和M2巨噬细胞表型有关。这项研究提供了临床前数据,表明对于想用ENDS替代传统香烟的COPD患者来说,接触电子烟并不安全。