Inhibition of sialic acid related substances on Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in rat trachea vulnerated by hydrochloric acid / 第三军医大学学报

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate whether sialic acid disaccharides, specificity agglutinins and neuramidinases could inhibit Pseudomonas aeruginose infection in rat trachea vulnerated by hydrochloric acid. Methods One hundred and forty male Wistar rats were vulnerated by hydrochloric acid through intratracheal instillation and then inoculated by Pseudomonas aeruginose admixed Sial ?2,3-Gal, Sial ?2,6-GalNAc, Maackia amurensis agglutinin, Sambucus nigra agglutinin, specificity ?2,3-neuramidinase or non-specificity neuramidinase respectively. Thirty minutes and 48 h after inoculation, whole trachea of 8 rats in each group was weighed, homogenated, and quantitative bacterial culture was performed while whole trachea of another 2 was fixed in 10% methanol, embedded with paraffin and HE stained. Results Sial ?2,3-related disaccharide, agglutinin and neuramidinases could decrease colony count of trachea 30 min after inoculation remarkably. But only Sial ?2,3-Gal and neuramidinases could obviously decrease colony count 48 h later. Sial ?2,6-related substrances have not analogical effects. Conclusion Sial ?2,3-related substrances could interfere Pseudomonas aeruginose binding/multiplication in the trachea, especially Sial ?2,3-Gal and neuramidinase.