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Carnosine markedly ameliorates H9N2 swine influenza virus-induced acute lung injury No Access

Abstract

Oxidative stress injury is an important pathogenesis of influenza virus in critically ill patients. The present study investigated the efficacy of carnosine, an antioxidant and free radical scavenger, on a model of acute lung injury (ALI) induced by H9N2 swine influenza virus. Female specific-pathogen-free BALB/c mice were randomized into four groups and treated as follows: (1) H9N2 group, (2) mock control group, (3) H9N2+carnosine group and (4) carnosine control group. The H9N2 group mice were inoculated intranasally with A/Swine/Hebei/012/2008/ (H9N2) virus (100 μl) in allantoic fluid (AF), whilst mock-infected animals were intranasally inoculated with non-infectious AF. Carnosine [10 mg (kg body mass)] was administered orally (100 μl) for 7 days consecutively. The survival rate, lung water content, TNF-α and IL-1β levels, lung histopathology, myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity, and Toll-like receptor (TLR)-4 levels were determined at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 14 days after inoculation. Carnosine treatment effectively decreased the mortality (43 versus 75 %,  < 0.05), significantly ameliorated pathological lesions in lungs and decreased the lung wet/dry mass ratio ( < 0.05). It also inhibited MPO activity, suppressed TNF-α and IL-1β release, decreased the H9N2 viral titre, and markedly inhibited levels of TLR-4 mRNA and protein in the lungs of infected mice ( < 0.05), which supported the use of carnosine for managing severe influenza cases.

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Carnosine markedly ameliorates H9N2 swine influenza virus-induced acute lung injury
J. Gen. Virol. 96, 2939 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.000238
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