Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, 282001, India.
Department of Animal Experimentation and Facility, National JALMA Institute for Leprosy and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, Tajganj, Agra, 281406, India.
Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2022 Jul;135:102224. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2022.102224. Epub 2022 Jun 22.
Pathogenic mycobacteria induce and accelerate blood vessel formation driven by extensive inflammation during granuloma formation, which is a central feature of mycobacterial pathogenesis. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) enhances the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and glutamic acid-leucine-arginine (ELR+) chemokines, which are potent inducers of vascularization. Most of the reported research work contends that VEGF growth factor induces neovascularization in human tuberculosis (TB) patients, but the evidence is inconclusive. Considerable ambiguity exists concerning the factors responsible for miliary tuberculosis. To identify such factors, we proposed an alternative explanation that could be found in miliary tuberculosis (MTB) cases. We performed a comparative analysis of angiogenic factors TNF-α, VEGF, and angiogenic ELR+ CXC and CC chemokine ligands in extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) and pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients. To observe the relationship of these factors with the severity of bacterial burden, guinea pigs were infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) and levels of the angiogenic factors were examined at different time intervals. Expression of these factors also exhibited a significant positive correlation with bacterial burden in other organs like the spleen, liver, and lymph nodes. We demonstrated statistical data on bacterial burden at different time points following the dissemination of infection in guinea pigs. In this study, we observed that there was a stimulated increase in the expression of ELR+ chemokines and VEGF in EPTB patients as compared to PTB patients. Following increased dissemination, the host immune response clears bacteria from the lungs during disease progression in guinea pigs.
致病分枝杆菌在肉芽肿形成过程中通过广泛的炎症诱导和加速血管形成,这是分枝杆菌发病机制的一个核心特征。肿瘤坏死因子-α(TNF-α)增强了血管内皮生长因子(VEGF)和谷氨酸-亮氨酸-精氨酸(ELR+)趋化因子的表达,这些趋化因子是血管生成的有力诱导剂。大多数报道的研究工作认为,VEGF 生长因子可诱导人类结核病(TB)患者的新生血管形成,但证据尚无定论。粟粒性结核病的病因存在相当大的不确定性。为了确定这些因素,我们提出了一个替代性解释,这个解释可能在粟粒性结核病(MTB)病例中找到。我们对肺外结核病(EPTB)和肺结核(PTB)患者的血管生成因子 TNF-α、VEGF 和血管生成 ELR+CXC 和 CC 趋化因子配体进行了比较分析。为了观察这些因素与细菌负荷严重程度的关系,我们用结核分枝杆菌(M.tb)感染豚鼠,并在不同时间间隔检查血管生成因子的水平。这些因子的表达也与脾脏、肝脏和淋巴结等其他器官中的细菌负荷呈显著正相关。我们展示了豚鼠感染传播后不同时间点细菌负荷的统计数据。在这项研究中,我们观察到 EPTB 患者中 ELR+趋化因子和 VEGF 的表达明显高于 PTB 患者。随着传播的增加,宿主免疫反应在疾病进展过程中清除肺部的细菌。
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