Lipopolysaccharide and hemorrhagic shock cause systemic inflammation by different mechanisms
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Hemorrhagic shock (HS) and sepsis are common after trauma. These trauma patients often need ventilatory support. The resulting hyperinflammatory state can cause neutrophil-mediated complications such as adult respiratory distress syndrome. An important underlying mechanism is polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) priming by damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs, caused by, e.g., HS and ventilation) and by pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs, e.g., lipopolysaccharide [LPS] in sepsis). The aim of this study was to compare the inflammatory response induced by DAMPs (liberated during HS) and PAMPs (LPS challenge) under conditions of high-volume ventilation. METHODS: Twenty-seven male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomized for mechanical ventilation (MV) alone (9 rats; positive end-expiratory pressure, 5 cm H2O; pressure control, +20 cm H2O; FIO2, 0.33), MV + HS (9 rats; hemorrhage, 30% volume loss) or MV + LPS (9 rats, LPS, 5mg/kg intravenously administered). Five rats were used as controls. Total PMN count and differentials were determined. In addition, the expression of activation markers (CD62L and CD11b) on blood-derived PMNs was measured by flow cytometry. Pulmonary inflammatory response was measured by PMN counts in bronchoalveolar fluid. The presence of neutrophils in the lung was determined by total myeloperoxidase. Results are expressed as means ± SEM; p ≤ 0.05 is considered statistically significant. RESULTS: All treated rats had more neutrophils in the blood and bronchoalveolar fluid compared with the controls. Myeloperoxidase was significantly higher in all groups compared with controls. MV and MV + HS rats had more blood neutrophils with CD62L(bright)/CD11b(dim) phenotypes, whereas MV + LPS rats showed more CD62L(dim)/CD11b(bright) neutrophils, indicative for activated cells. CONCLUSION: All ventilated rats showed a systemic inflammatory response. The responses to HS and MV were very similar, suggesting a common pathway of DAMP-associated inflammation. In marked contrast, LPS showed a different neutrophil phenotype (CD62L(dim)/CD11b(bright)), suggesting a different inflammatory response. It is concluded that shock induced by DAMPs and PAMPs have different underlying mechanisms.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".