Application of Tissue Microarrays to Study Protecting Effects of Baicalin and Octreotide on Lung Injury in Severe Acute Pancreatitis / 医学研究杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To observe the influence of Baicalin and Octreotide on lung injury of rat with severe acute pancreatitis(SAP) and discuss the therapeutic effect and mechanism of the two medicines on SAP.Methods The improved Aho(?)method was adopted to pre- pare SAP rat models via retrograde injection of 3.5% sodium taurocholate to the pancreatic duct.The 135 SAP rat models after being pre- pared were randomly divided into the model group,Baicalin treatment group and Octreotide treatment group with 45 rats in each group;an- other 45 were selected to be the sham operation group which only received abdomen opening surgery.The above - mentioned groups were then randomly divided into 3h,6h and 12h groups with 15 rats in each group.Observed respectively at 3h,6h and 12h after operation,the mortalities of all rat groups followed by batch execution of rats,and then observed the gross pathological and pathological changes of lung. The tissue microarrays technology was applied to prepare the lung tissue microarrays sections.The changes in Bax and bcl-2 protein ex- pression levels of lung tissue of each group were observed via immunohistochemical staining and meanwhile the TUNEL method was applied to observe the lung cell category and apoptotic index changes of lung tissue in each group.Results The 12h survival of model group was 66,67% while those of Baicalin treatment group and Octreotide treatment groups were both 100%,indicating a marked difference(P＜0.05).Comparison of lung pathological score disclosedThe model group and Baicalin treatment group obviously exceeded the sham oper- ation group at various time points(P＜0.01);at 6h and 12h the Baicalin treatment group was obviously less than the model group(P＜0.05)and the Oetreotide treatment group less than the model group(P＜0.01).Comparison of Bax protein of lung in each group dis- closedThe Baicalin treatment group and Octreotide treatment group obviously exceeded the sham operation group and model group at 3h (P＜0.05),meanwhile the Baicalin treatment group obviously exceeded the Octreotide treatment group(P＜0.01).Changes of lung bcl -2 protein expression level of all groups disclosedThe model group and Baicalin treatment group obviously exceeding the sham operation group(P＜0.01)as well as the Octreotide treatment group(P＜0.05)at different time points,the Baicalin treatment group was obviously less than the model group at 6h(P＜0.05).The peak of apoptosis occurred to the Baicalin treatment group at 6h,but statistics showed no obvious difference among all groups at different time points(P＞0.05).Conclusions(1)Both Baicalin and Octreotide have protecting effect on SAP lung injury and their therapeutic mechanism is possibly related to apoptosis.The application of tissue microarrays in SAP pathological examination can save manpower and material resources,cut down the experimental cost and improve the experimental efficien- cy,thus worth popularizing.