Galectin-Receptor Interactions Regulates Cardiac Pathology Caused by Infection

Overview

Journal Front Immunol

Specialty Allergy & Immunology

Date 2021 Jun 7

PMID 34093526

Citations 3

Authors

Jinghai Yan

Shiguang Huang

Fangli Lu

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Abstract

The parasitic nematode causes trichinellosis, a serious food-borne parasitic zoonosis worldwide. Infection with may also cause myocarditis. In the present study, we used mouse models to assess the impact of blockage of galectin-receptor interactions by α-lactose on cardiac immunopathology during acute experimental infection. Our data demonstrated that, after infection, blockage of galectin-receptor interactions resulted in cardiac dysfunction detected by transthoracic conventional echocardiography, and increased serum Gal-3 level, a biomarker of myocardial damage. In addition, there were increased eosinophil number in peripheral blood, and increased eosinophil infiltration in the heart and spleen tissues accompanied with increased mRNA levels of eosinophil granule proteins (including eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) and eosinophil peroxidase (EPO)) and IL-5 in these organs; increased cardiac fibrosis accompanied with increased Gal-3 and collagen 1 expressions in the hearts of mice with blockage of galectin-receptor interactions after infection. Correlation analysis showed that significant positive correlations existed between the mRNA levels of Gal-3 and ECP/EPO/eosinophil major basic protein/IL-5/CCL11/CCR3/α-SMA/collagen 1 in the hearts of both -infected mice and -infected mice with blockage of galectin-receptor interactions. Our data suggest that galectin-receptor interactions play a pivotal role during acute infection, and lack of galectin-receptor interactions upregulates Gal-3 which, in turn, leads to elevated heart eosinophil recruitment, exacerbated heart pathology and fibrosis, and heart functional damage.

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