Affiliation:
1. Department of Emergency, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China
2. Translational Medicine Research Center, Medical Innovation Research Division and Fourth Medical of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China
Abstract
ABSTRACT
T cell exhaustion is the main cause of sepsis-induced immunosuppression and is associated with the poor prognosis. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+
) is well known for its anti-aging effect, but its role in sepsis-induced T cell exhaustion remains to be elucidated. In the present study, using a classic septic animal model, we found that the levels of NAD+ and its downstream molecule, which is sirtuins 1 (SIRT1), in T cells in sepsis were decreased. Supplementation with nicotinamide ribose (NR), the precursor of NAD+, right after cecal ligation and puncture significantly increased the levels of NAD+ and SIRT1. Supplementation with NR alleviated the depletion of mononuclear cells and T lymphocytes in spleen in sepsis and increased the levels of CD3+ CD4+ and CD3+ CD8+ T cells. Interestingly, both Th1 and Th2 cells were expanded after NR treatment, but the balance of Th1/Th2 was partly restored. Nicotinamide ribose also inhibited the regulatory T cells expansion and programmed cell death 1 expression in CD4+ T cells in sepsis. In addition, the bacteria load, organ damage (lung, heart, liver, and kidney), and the mortality of septic mice were reduced after NR supplementation. In summary, these results demonstrate the beneficial effect of NR on sepsis and T cell exhaustion, which is associated with NAD+/SIRT1 pathway.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine,Emergency Medicine
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