1. Whole-Body In Vivo Monitoring of Inflammatory Diseases Exploiting Human Interleukin 6-Luciferase Transgenic Mice.
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Makiko Hayashi, Jun Takai, Lei Yu, Takashi Moriguchi, Masayuki Yamamotoa, and Hozumi Motohashi
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INFLAMMATION , *INTERLEUKIN-6 , *LUCIFERASES , *BACTERIAL artificial chromosomes , *ANIMAL models of inflammation , *DISEASE progression , *ENCEPHALOMYELITIS , *ATOPIC dermatitis , *DIAGNOSIS - Abstract
Chronic inflammation underlies the pathological progression of various diseases, and thus many efforts have been made to quantitatively evaluate the inflammatory status of the diseases. In this study, we generated a highly sensitive inflammation-monitoring mouse system using a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clone containing extended flanking sequences of the human interleukin 6 gene (hIL6) locus, in which the luciferase (Luc) reporter gene is integrated (hIL6-BAC-Luc).We successfully monitored lipopolysaccharide-induced systemic inflammation in various tissues of the hIL6-BAC-Lucmice using an in vivo bioluminescence imaging system. When two chronic inflammatory disease models, i.e., a genetic model of atopic dermatitis and a model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), were applied to the hIL6-BAC-Lucmice, luciferase bioluminescence was specifically detected in the atopic skin lesion and central nervous system, respectively. Moreover, the Luc activities correlated well with the disease severity. Nrf2 is a master transcription factor that regulates antioxidative and detoxification enzyme genes. Upon EAE induction, the Nrf2-deficient mice crossed with the hIL6-BAC-Luc mice exhibited enhanced neurological symptoms concomitantly with robust luciferase luminescence in the neuronal tissue. Thus, whole-body in vivo monitoring using the hIL6BAC-Luc transgenic system(WIM-6 system) provides a new and powerful diagnostic tool for real-time in vivo monitoring of inflammatory status in multiple different disease models. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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