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Acute lung injury significantly contributes to mortality in bacterial sepsis due to lung endothelial barrier destruction, leading to protein-rich lung edema, an influx of proinflammatory leukocytes, and persistent hypoxemia. CTRP3, an adipokine, reduces endothelial adhesion molecules Vcam-1 and Icam-1 and inhibits LPS-induced monocytic adhesion, highlighting its anti-inflammatory effects. This study investigates CTRP3's protective role in sepsis-induced acute lung injury, revealing reduced CTRP3 expression during sepsis, which worsens endothelial dysfunction. Supplementing with recombinant CTRP3 mitigates this dysfunction and reduces LPS-induced endothelial pyroptosis by inhibiting caspase-1, thus protecting the endothelial barrier and reducing lung injury. In conclusion, CTRP3 preserves endothelial function in sepsis by suppressing pyroptosis.
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mBio
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The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California, USA.
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August 2025
Key Laboratory of Modern Toxicology of Ministry of Education; School of Basic Medical Sciences, Nanjing Medical University, 211166 Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
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Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA.
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Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. Electronic address:
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