Implicações Ósseas na Sepse Sistêmica Aguda: Uma análise química e estrutural

Abstract

Sepsis is a host inflammatory response to infection associated with high mortality that is caused by multiple organs damages associated with changes in calcemia. It is already known that inflammatory diseases impact on the health of the bone tissue, however, the effect of systemic sepsis on bone tissue has not yet been well elucidated. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of sepsis on osteoclast activity, bone mechanical, bone composition and surface roughness of cortical tibia. The animals were randomly divided into SHAM (passed by the surgical procedure but did not have sepsis induced) and CLP (underwent cecal ligation and puncture procedure) and twenty-four hours after surgery, animals were anesthetized to remove tibia. Data were analyzed by non-paired student t-test and Mann-Whitney non-parametric test with a significant level of 5%. No significant differences in mineral compartments of the cortical tibia could be observed between SHAM and CLP rats. Sepsis induced (p < 0.05) increase in amide II, amide III and collagen, which contributes to reduce (p < 0.05) total mineralization degree (total mineral-to-total matrix ratio) in tibia of CLP compared with SHAM rats. CLP rats also showed higher values of phenylalanine (62%, p <0.05) as compared with SHAM rats. Besides, sepsis led to increased expression of osteoclasts on cortical tibia associated with reduction in surface roughness of cortical tibia. In summary, we showed that acute sepsis promotes reduction in nanometric rugosity associated with increased osteoclasts activity, suggesting a potential bone effect in plasma calcium concentration in sepsis. Finally, our study unravels new effects of acute sepsis on bone composition and suggests that septic patients are at risk of bone damage.