Lipid A dependence of the ocular response to circulating endotoxin in rabbits.

AUTOR(ES)

Howes, E L

RESUMO

The effects of bacterial lipopolysaccharides on ocular vascular permeability were measured after their intravenous injection in rabbits. Alterations in ocular vascular permeability were quantitated by the accumulation of 125I-labeled albumin in the enucleated eye compared with that in heart blood (ocular albumin space). Two lipopolysaccharides extracted from Escherichia coli O111:B4, one with high lipid A content and one with high polysaccharide content, were tested initially, and the one with greater lipid A was 200 times more effective in producing an alteration in ocular vascular permeability. Lipopolysaccharide from a rough strain, Salmonella minnesota (R595), containing lipid A primarily, as well as a purified lipid A extracted from +595, were also effective. But an extract of the protein associated with lipid A was without significant effect. In vitro pretreatment of the lipopolysaccharides with polymyxin B, an inhibitor of the biological activity of lipid A through direct binding, could abrogate the ocular response. These results indicate the paramount importance of the lipid A moiety in the ocular response to circulating endotoxin.

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