TY - JOUR T1 - Bradykinin-Induced Lung Inflammation and Bronchoconstriction: Role in Parainfluenze-3 Virus-Induced Inflammation and Airway Hyperreactivity JF - Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics JO - J Pharmacol Exp Ther SP - 681 LP - 692 DO - 10.1124/jpet.110.171876 VL - 335 IS - 3 AU - Kenneth J. Broadley AU - Alan E. Blair AU - Emma J. Kidd AU - Joachim J. Bugert AU - William R. Ford Y1 - 2010/12/01 UR - http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/335/3/681.abstract N2 - Inhaled bradykinin causes bronchoconstriction in asthmatic subjects but not nonasthmatics. To date, animal studies with inhaled bradykinin have been performed only in anesthetized guinea pigs and rats, where it causes bronchoconstriction through sensory nerve pathways. In the present study, airway function was recorded in conscious guinea pigs by whole-body plethysmography. Inhaled bradykinin (1 mM, 20 s) caused bronchoconstriction and influx of inflammatory cells to the lungs, but only when the enzymatic breakdown of bradykinin by angiotensin-converting enzyme and neutral endopeptidase was inhibited by captopril (1 mg/kg i.p.) and phosphoramidon (10 mM, 20-min inhalation), respectively. The bronchoconstriction and cell influx were antagonized by the B2 kinin receptor antagonist 4-(S)-amino-5-(4-{4-[2,4-dichloro-3-(2,4-dimethyl-8-quinolyloxymethyl)phenylsulfonamido]-tetrahydro-2H-4-pyranylcarbonyl}piperazino)-5-oxopentyl](trimethyl)ammonium chloride hydrochloride (MEN16132) when given by inhalation (1 and 10 μM, 20 min) and are therefore mediated via B2 kinin receptors. However, neither intraperitioneal MEN16132 nor the peptide B2 antagonist icatibant, by inhalation, antagonized these bradykinin responses. Sensitization of guinea pigs with ovalbumin was not sufficient to induce airway hyperreactivity (AHR) to the bronchoconstriction by inhaled bradykinin. However, ovalbumin challenge of sensitized guinea pigs caused AHR to bradykinin and histamine. Infection of guinea pigs by nasal instillation of parainfluenza-3 virus produced AHR to inhaled histamine and lung influx of inflammatory cells. These responses were attenuated by the bradykinin B2 receptor antagonist MEN16132 and H-(4-chloro)DPhe-2′(1-naphthylalanine)-(3-aminopropyl)guanidine (VA999024), an inhibitor of tissue kallikrein, the enzyme responsible for lung synthesis of bradykinin. These results suggest that bradykinin is involved in virus-induced inflammatory cell influx and AHR. ER -