High Dose Vitamin C Supplementation Increases the Th1/Th2 Cytokine Secretion Ratio, but Decreases Eosinophilic Infiltration in Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid of Ovalbumin-Sensitized and Challenged Mice

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (21) ◽  
pp. 10471-10476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui-Hsiang Chang ◽  
Chin-Shuh Chen ◽  
Jin-Yuarn Lin
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin C ◽  
Bronchoalveolar Lavage ◽  
Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid ◽  
Lavage Fluid ◽  
Cytokine Secretion ◽  
Eosinophilic Infiltration ◽  
High Dose ◽  
Th2 Cytokine ◽  
Vitamin C Supplementation ◽  
High Dose Vitamin

scholarly journals Effect of exogenous surfactant on Paediatric Bronchoalveolar lavage derived macrophages’ cytokine secretion

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyné van Rensburg ◽  
Johann M. van Zyl ◽  
Johan Smith ◽  
Pierre Goussard
Keyword(s):  
Bronchoalveolar Lavage ◽  
South African ◽  
Alveolar Macrophages ◽  
Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid ◽  
Lavage Fluid ◽  
Cytokine Secretion ◽  
Exogenous Surfactant ◽  
Normal Children ◽  
African Children ◽  
South African Children

Abstract Background Bronchoalveolar lavage is a useful bronchoscopy technique. However, studies in “normal” children populations are few. Furthermore, the anti-inflammatory effects of exogenous pulmonary surfactants on the bronchoalveolar cellular components are limited. Methods Thirty children, aged 3 to 14 years, underwent diagnostic bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage. Differential cytology, cytokine and chemokine measurements were performed on the fluid after exogenous surfactant exposure. The aim of the study was to investigate the potential anti-inflammatory effects of exogenous surfactants on the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, specifically alveolar macrophages of healthy South African children. Results Alveolar macrophages were the predominant cellular population in normal children. Patients with inflammatory pneumonopathies had significantly more neutrophils. Levels of inflammatory cytokines were significantly lower after exogenous surfactant exposure. Moreover, IL-10 and IL-12 cytokine secretion increased after exogenous surfactant exposure. Conclusion This study provides the first data on bronchoalveolar lavage of healthy South African children. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from patients with pulmonary inflammation was characterised by neutrophilia. Finally, we propose that exogenous surfactant treatment could help alleviate inflammation in diseased states where it occurs in the tracheobronchial tree.

Th1-Th2 Cytokine Kinetics in the Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid of Mice Infected withCryptococcus neoformansof Different Virulences

2000 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 849-855 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koh Abe ◽  
Jun-ichi Kadota ◽  
Yuji Ishimatsu ◽  
Tetsuji Iwashita ◽  
Kazunori Tomono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronchoalveolar Lavage ◽  
Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid ◽  
Lavage Fluid ◽  
Th2 Cytokine

TH2 cytokine expression in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid T lymphocytes and bronchial submucosa is a feature of asthma and eosinophilic bronchitis

2002 ◽  
Vol 110 (6) ◽  
pp. 899-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher E. Brightling ◽  
Fiona A. Symon ◽  
Surinder S. Birring ◽  
Peter Bradding ◽  
Ian D. Pavord ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
T Lymphocytes ◽  
Bronchoalveolar Lavage ◽  
Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid ◽  
Lavage Fluid ◽  
Cytokine Expression ◽  
Eosinophilic Bronchitis ◽  
Th2 Cytokine

scholarly journals Vitamin C Supplementation in Healthy Individuals Leads to Shifts of Bacterial Populations in the Gut—A Pilot Study

Antioxidants ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1278
Author(s):  
Antonius T. Otten ◽  
Arno R. Bourgonje ◽  
Vera Peters ◽  
Behrooz Z. Alizadeh ◽  
Gerard Dijkstra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Vitamin C ◽  
Gut Microbiota ◽  
High Dose ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Microbial Composition ◽  
Bacterial Populations ◽  
Vitamin C Supplementation ◽  
Anti Inflammatory ◽  
High Dose Vitamin

Gut microbes are crucial to human health, but microbial composition is often disturbed in a number of human diseases. Accumulating evidence points to nutritional modulation of the gut microbiota as a potentially beneficial therapeutic strategy. Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) may be of particular interest as it has known antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. In this study, we investigated whether supplementation with high-dose vitamin C may favourably affect the composition of the gut microbiota. In this pilot study, healthy human participants received 1000 mg vitamin C supplementation daily for two weeks. Gut microbiota composition was analysed before and after intervention by performing faecal 16S rRNA gene sequencing. In total, 14 healthy participants were included. Daily supplementation of high-dose vitamin C led to an increase in the relative abundances of Lachnospiraceae (p < 0.05), whereas decreases were observed for Bacteroidetes (p < 0.01), Enterococci (p < 0.01) and Gemmiger formicilis (p < 0.05). In addition, trends for bacterial shifts were observed for Blautia (increase) and Streptococcus thermophilus (decrease). High-dose vitamin C supplementation for two weeks shows microbiota-modulating effects in healthy individuals, with several beneficial shifts of bacterial populations. This may be relevant as these bacteria have anti-inflammatory properties and strongly associate with gut health.

Any Role of High-Dose Vitamin C for Septic Shock in 2021?

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (05) ◽  
pp. 672-682
Author(s):  
Ankita Agarwal ◽  
David N. Hager ◽  
Jonathan E. Sevransky
Keyword(s):  
Septic Shock ◽  
Vitamin C ◽  
Outcome Measures ◽  
Randomized Clinical Trials ◽  
Secondary Outcome ◽  
High Dose ◽  
Healthy Humans ◽  
Vitamin C Supplementation ◽  
High Dose Vitamin

AbstractWhile the use of vitamin C as a therapeutic agent has been investigated since the 1950s, there has been substantial recent interest in the role of vitamin C supplementation in critical illness and particularly, sepsis and septic shock. Humans cannot synthesize vitamin C and rely on exogenous intake to maintain a plasma concentration of approximately 70 to 80 μmol/L. Vitamin C, in healthy humans, is involved with antioxidant function, wound healing, endothelial function, and catecholamine synthesis. Its function in the human body informs the theoretical basis for why vitamin C supplementation may be beneficial in sepsis/septic shock.Critically ill patients can be vitamin C deficient due to low dietary intake, increased metabolic demands, inefficient recycling of vitamin C metabolites, and loss due to renal replacement therapy. Intravenous supplementation is required to achieve supraphysiologic serum levels of vitamin C. While some clinical studies of intravenous vitamin C supplementation in sepsis have shown improvements in secondary outcome measures, none of the randomized clinical trials have shown differences between vitamin C supplementation and standard of care and/or placebo in the primary outcome measures of the trials. There are some ongoing studies of high-dose vitamin C administration in patients with sepsis and coronavirus disease 2019; the majority of evidence so far does not support the routine supplementation of vitamin C in patients with sepsis or septic shock.

High-dose vitamin C supplementation accelerates the Achilles tendon healing in healthy rats

2008 ◽  
Vol 129 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suna Ömeroğlu ◽  
Tuncay Peker ◽  
Nurten Türközkan ◽  
Hakan Ömeroğlu
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin C ◽  
Achilles Tendon ◽  
Tendon Healing ◽  
High Dose ◽  
Vitamin C Supplementation ◽  
High Dose Vitamin

scholarly journals Long-term vitamin C supplementation has no markedly favourable effect on serum lipids in middle-aged Japanese subjects

2004 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mi Kyung Kim ◽  
Satoshi Sasaki ◽  
Shizuka Sasazuki ◽  
Shunji Okubo ◽  
Masato Hayashi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin C ◽  
Dose Group ◽  
Low Dose ◽  
Favourable Effect ◽  
High Dose ◽  
Vitamin C Supplementation ◽  
The Mean ◽  
High Dose Vitamin ◽  
Β Carotene

Antioxidant vitamins have been reported to be associated with an improvement in blood lipid profiles, but results are not consistent. The present study was designed to determine whether long-term vitamin C supplementation could alter serum lipid concentrations in subjects who completed a 5-year population-based double-blind intervention trial. A total of 439 Japanese subjects with atrophic gastritis initially participated in the trial using vitamin C and β-carotene to prevent gastric cancer. Before and upon early termination of β-carotene supplementation, 134 subjects dropped out of the trial; finally, 161 subjects assigned to the high-dose group (500 mg vitamin C/d) and 144 subjects assigned to the low-dose group (50 mg vitamin C/d) were studied. No favourable effect of vitamin C supplementation on serum concentrations of total cholesterol, HDL- and LDL-cholesterol, and triacylglycerol was observed, although high-dose vitamin C supplementation increased serum vitamin C concentrations substantially. Among women, the mean change in serum triacylglycerol decreased (−0·12 mmol/l, 95 % CI −0·32, 0·09) in the high-dose group, but increased (+0·12 mmol/l, 95 % CI 0·03, 0·22) in the low-dose group. In addition, the mean change in serum triacylglycerol among women with hypertriacylglycerolaemia was statistically significant (−1·21, 95 % CI −2·38, −0·05) after high-dose vitamin C supplementation. The 5-year vitamin C supplementation had no markedly favourable effects on the serum lipid and lipoprotein profile. However, our present results do not preclude the possibility that vitamin C supplementation may decrease triacylglycerol concentrations among women with hypertriacylglycerolaemia.

scholarly journals Th1/Th2 cytokine pattern in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid and induced sputum in pulmonary sarcoidosis

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioanna Tsiligianni ◽  
Katerina M Antoniou ◽  
Despina Kyriakou ◽  
Nikolaos Tzanakis ◽  
George Chrysofakis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronchoalveolar Lavage ◽  
Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid ◽  
Lavage Fluid ◽  
Pulmonary Sarcoidosis ◽  
Induced Sputum ◽  
Th2 Cytokine ◽  
Cytokine Pattern
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