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Accordingly, blockade of TL1A/Fas-L/TLR4 cascades and inhibition of the M1/Th1 differentiation associated with DcR3 might potentially rescue hepatic IR injury. However, the contribution of TL1A/Fas-L/TLR4 on the M1/M2 and Th1/Th2 balances, as well as pathogenic liver IR injury had never previously been explored in animals with hepatic steatosis (HS). Thus, our study aimed to explore whether DcR3 analogue supplement in animals with HS was able to modify various pathogenic changes that Sorbitol occur in the microenvironment of IR-injured livers.
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Discussion IR-induced hepatic damage is initiated by an increase in serum ALT, TNFα, and INFγ levels. Subsequently, hepatic inflammation, apoptosis, and necrosis can be observed after upregulation of TLR4/NFκB and Fas-L expression, M1/Th1 KCs polarization, and proinflammatory cytokine/chemokine release. In IR liver injury, necrosis and apoptosis are coexistent processes. During late reperfusion, the shared mechanistic pathways between necrosis and apoptosis result in inflammation, neutrophil infiltration, and microcirculatory failure. IR-induced hepatic damage was found to be associated with significantly higher serum soluble Fas-L, TL1A, and LIGHT levels, all of which were blocked by DcR3a supplement, in our rats with HS. Single DcR3a administration improves survival in experimental sepsis by suppression of the inflammatory response. One week of intrathecal DcR3a injection ameliorates experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice. One month of DcR3a administration protects nonobese diabetic mice from autoimmune diabetes by inhibition of Th1 cell differentiation. Two weeks of DcR3a administration ameliorates autoimmune crescentic glomerulonephritis in mice by inhibiting apoptosis and leukocyte infiltration. Significantly, in our study, the 2-week DcR3a supplement inhibited neutrophil infiltration, TL1A-Fas-L cascades and neutrophil-macrophage crosstalk, subsequently leading to reductions in IR liver injury in our rats with HS. TLR-NFκB cascades activation plays an important role in the pathogenesis of neutrophil-mediated tissue IR injury. TL1A, which is inhibited by DcR3, can upregulate TLR expression. Directly, DcR3 can suppress TLR-stimulated NFκB activation. Notably, we discovered that the DcR3a-supplied TL1A suppression downregulated the TLR-NFκB pathway and inhibited neutrophil-mediated IR hepatic injury in our rats with HS. Following IR injury, neutrophil-mediated hepatic microcirculatory failure results in ischemia-related hepatocellular damage. Hepatic sinusoids are easily plugged by the IR-infiltrated neutrophils due to the relatively small width (about 6–7 μm) of neutrophils. Especially, hepatocytes are susceptible to sinusoidal plugging-related hypoxia, because each hepatocyte faces two sinusoids. The elevated serum/hepatic MCP-1 and TLR4 after IR has been reported to accelerate the neutrophil-mediated severe hepatic necrosis. In our IR-Zucker (HS) rats with severe hepatic necrosis, the elevated serum MCP-1 levels were accompanied by increased hepatic neutrophil infiltration and microcirculatory failure (increased leukocyte adhesion and nonperfused sinusoids). In response to tissue hypoperfusion, increased MPO activity in infiltrated neutrophils initiated detrimental oxidative tissue necrosis by increasing nitric NO and peroxynitrite (representative of nitrotyrosine) production. In our IR-Zucker (HS) rats, the increased hepatic MPO activity and neutrophil infiltration were parallel to the increased hepatic NO and nitrotyrosine levels. All of the above abnormalities correlated with neutrophil-mediated hepatic necrosis, and were alleviated by 14-day DcR3a supplement. Obviously, the beneficial effects of the DcR3a supplement were contributed by the alleviation of various neutrophil-mediated abnormalities and hepatic necrosis in our DcR3a + IR-Zucker (HS) rats. In addition to hepatic necrosis, hepatic apoptosis is involved in the pathogenesis of reperfusion injury after ischemia insults. In the ischemia brain, the up-regulated TLR4/Fas-L signals accelerate IR injury by increasing apoptosis. Specifically, DcR3 is an antiapoptotic factor that protects cells against Fas-induced apoptosis. DcR3 expressed in rheumatoid synovial fibroblasts protects the cells against Fas-induced apoptosis. Accompanied by the inhibition of hepatic necrosis, the decrease in the IR-elevated hepatic apoptotic markers including serum sFas-L and hepatic caspase-3/-8 by 14-day of DcR3a pre-treatment were observed in our DcR3a + IR-Zucker (HS) rats. In addition to anti-apoptotic effects, acute DcR3a administration can inhibit Fas-L-induced neutrophil infiltration and TLR4-dependent proinflammatory mediator release. Simultaneously, 14-day DcR3a supplement inhibited hepatic necrosis and apoptosis through the suppression of TLR/Fas-L signals in our DcR3a + IR-Zucker (HS) rats.