Comparison of ribavirin and oseltamivir in reducing mortality and lung injury in mice infected with mouse adapted A/California/04/2009 (H1N1)

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• 作者：Sotirios G. Zarogiannis^a ; ^b ; James W. Noah^b ; ^c ; Asta Jurkuvenaite^a ; ^b ; Chad Steele^d ; Sadis Matalon^a ; ^b ; ^e ; ^{sadis@uab.edu} ; Diana L. Noah^b ; ^c
• 关键词：Acute lung injury ; H1N1 2009 ; Influenza A ; Oseltamivir ; Pandemic ; Ribavirin
• 刊名：Life Sciences
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：62_00243205
• 类别：imm
• 出版时间：10 March, 2012
• 卷：90
• 期：11-12
• 页码：440-445
• 文件大小：348 K

摘要

class="h4">Aim

To compare the efficacy of ribavirin and oseltamivir in reducing mortality, lung injury and cytokine response profile in pandemic influenza H1N1 (2009) infection.

class="h4">Main methods

We assessed survival, weight loss, lung viral load (by RT-PCR), lung injury (by protein content in bronchoalveolar lavage), and inflammation (cell counts, differentials and cytokines in the bronchoalveolar lavage) in BALB/c mice after infection with mouse-adapted pandemic influenza strain A/California/04/2009.

class="h4">Key findings

Our results indicate that ribavirin (80 mg kg^鈭?#xA0;1) and oseltamivir (50 mg kg^鈭?#xA0;1) are equally effective in improving survival (100%vs. 0%in water treated controls), while ribavirin proved to be more effective in significantly preventing weight loss. Both drugs diminished the injury of the alveolar-capillary barrier by decreasing the protein detected in the BAL to baseline levels, and they were also equally effective in reduction lung viral loads by 100-fold. Administration of either drug did not decrease the amount of inflammatory infiltrate in the lung, but ribavirin significantly reduced the percentage comprised of lymphocytes. This study shows that these antivirals differentially regulate inflammatory cytokines and chemokines with ribavirin significantly reducing most of the cytokines/chemokines measured. Ribavirin treatment leads to a Th1 cytokine response while oseltamivir leads to a Th2 cytokine response with significant increase in the levels of the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10.

class="h4">Significance

This study reveals new mechanistic insights in the way that ribavirin and oseltamivir exert their antiviral activity and supports the theory that ribavirin could potentially serve as an efficacious therapeutic alternative for oseltamivir resistant pandemic H1N1 strains.