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Infect. Immun., 04 1997, 1258-1266, Vol 65, No. 4
Copyright © 1997, American Society for Microbiology

Hemoglobin increases mortality from bacterial endotoxin

D Su, RI Roth, M Yoshida and J Levin
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California School of Medicine, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco 94121, USA.

Cell-free hemoglobin (Hb) is being developed as an erythrocyte substitute. We have previously demonstrated that cell-free Hb is an endotoxin-binding protein which disaggregates endotoxin and subsequently increases the biological activity of endotoxin in several in vitro assays. Because much of the morbidity and mortality associated with gram-negative bacterial infection is the result of pathophysiologic responses to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS; endotoxin), we studied the effect of Hb on LPS-mediated mortality. Hb infused intravenously into mice before, coincident with, or after intraperitoneal LPS injection substantially increased LPS-related mortality from <5% to 50 to 70% 24 h after administration of LPS and from 50% to 60 to 90% at 48 h. Enhanced mortality was observed over a range of doses of injected LPS. At a given LPS dose, enhancement of mortality was shown to be dependent on the dose of Hb administered. Unmodified native human Hb, alpha-alpha-cross-linked human Hb, and beta- beta-cross-linked human or bovine Hb all were shown to enhance LPS- mediated mortality. Depressed reticuloendothelial cell function may have contributed to the enhanced mortality from LPS in the presence of Hb. Therefore, Hb-based blood substitutes, which are currently undergoing clinical trials, may intensify the potentially fatal effects of the sepsis syndrome in patients with trauma, infection, or hypotension who receive Hb for erythrocyte replacement.

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