Investigation of Inhaled Nitric Oxide and Mesenchymal Stromal Cells as Novel Therapeutic Strategies to Improve Clinical Outcome in Experimental Severe Influenza
Year: 2012
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Severe influenza, recognized as a clinical syndrome characterized by hyper-induction of pro-inflammatory cytokine production, results in approximately 250–500 thousand deaths annually worldwide. Current influenza research is focused on therapeutics to target the influenza virus or modulate influenza virus-induced inflammation as potential treatment options to improve clinical outcome in experimental influenza A (H1N1) virus infection. The goals of this work were: (1) to evaluate the utility of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) for decreasing influenza virus production in the lungs, and (2) investigate the use of mesenchymal stromal (stem) cells (MSCs) for mitigating deleterious host responses to influenza infection. Here, we report that MSCs and iNO, administered alone either prophylactically or post-influenza virus infection, fail to modulate host inflammation, fail to improve acute lung injury, fail to dampen lung viral load, and fail to improve survival of infected mice.
Source: TSpace (University of Toronto)
Author: Ilyse Darwish
Language: English
Subfield: Epidemiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2757617561