Effect of glucocorticoid on rat intestinal barrier function / 中华器官移植杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the changes of gut barrier function under glucocorticoid, so as to understand the reasons of gut-derived infection and bacteria infection.Methods Fifty-six Wistar rats were divided into control and methylprednisolone (Mep, 100 mg/kg, i.p., once every day) groups, and there were four time points in each group (0, 3, 5, 7 day). At each time point the rats were subjected to general anaesthesia and blood, mesenteric lymph nodes, enteric content and ileal tissue were obtained for determination of serum D-lactic, DAO, intestinal microecosystem, apoptosis index of mesenteric lymph nodes and bacterial culture. Results At the latter three time points, compared with control group, serum D-lactic and DAO, and apoptosis index of mesenteric lymph nodes in MeP group were significantly increased (P 0.05) from the day 3 after administration,the positive rate of organs bacterial culture in MeP groups at the No7 day is much higher than that in control group(P