Effects of endotoxin in the lungs of neonatal rats: age-dependent impairment of the inflammatory response.

Age-dependent maturation of the intrapulmonary inflammatory responses to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was studied because nosocomial gram-negative infections cause morbidity in newborn infants. Escherichia coli LPS or live E. coli were injected into the airways of neonatal or adult rats; intrapulmonary recruitment of leukocytes was measured 6 h later. Neonates showed age- and dose-dependent impairment of intrapulmonary neutrophil recruitment after intratracheal administration of LPS or live E. coli that persisted for the first 28 days of life. Neonatal and adult alveolar macrophages released similar amounts of neutrophil chemotactic activity and tumor necrosis factor in response to incubation with LPS in vitro. Treatment of neonates with intratracheal or systemic interferon-gamma did not augment the response to LPS. Thus, intrapulmonary inflammatory responses to LPS and gram-negative bacteria are impaired early in life and do not approach adult levels until approximately 4 weeks of age.

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