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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Res. 2019 Nov 2;150:104502. doi: 10.1016/j.phrs.2019.104502

Table 1.

TLR4 agonists that modify innate immune responses to infection

TLR4 Agonist Modified Innate Response in Models of Infection Reference(s)
LPS ↑ Macrophage-mediated bacterial clearance during polymicrobial sepsis Deng et.al. J Immunol 2013 [86]
↓ Bacterial burden & serum cytokines during P. aeruginosa & Salmonella enterica infection Lehner et al. Infect Immun 2001; Murphey et al. Shock 2007 [35, 84]
↑ Survival & decreased serum cytokines during Cryptococcus neoformans infection Rayhane et al. Infect Immun 2000 [87]
↑ Recruitment of phagocytes to the site of P. aeruginosa infection Varma et al. Infect Immun 2005 [85]
↑ Leukocyte recruitment after S. aureus infection Murphey et al. Shock 2008 [37]
↑ Neutrophil recruitment, antimicrobial function, bacterial clearance, and survival during fecal peritonitis Wynn et al. Blood 2008 [89]

MPLA ↑ Recruitment of innate leukocytes to sites of P. aeruginosa & S. aureus infections Bohannon et al. J Leukoc Biol 2015; Fensterheim et al. J Immunol 2018 [19, 36]
↑ Expansion of innate leukocyte progenitors in the bone marrow Bohannon et al. J Leukoc Biol 2015 [19]
↑ Survival during P. aeruginosa, S. aureus, & C. albicans infections Bohannon et al. J Leukoc Biol 2015; Romero et al. Infect Immun 2011; Fensterheim et al. J Immunol 2018 [19, 33, 36]
↑ Bacterial clearance during P. aeruginosa Bohannon et al. J Leukoc Biol 2015; Romero et al. Infect Immun 2011 [19, 33]
↑ Bacterial clearance during P. aeruginosa & S. aureus infections, which is preserved up to 10 days after treatment Fensterheim et al. J Immunol 2017; Fensterheim et al. J Immunol 2018 [20, 36]
↑ Antimicrobial functions of innate phagocytes Fensterheim et al. J Immunol 2018 [36]
↑ Macrophage metabolic phenotype characterized by sustained heightened glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation Fensterheim et al. J Immunol 2018 [36]
↓ Cytokines in the plasma & site of infection Fukuda et al. Shock 2019 [38]
↑ Bacterial clearance & attenuated lung injury during P. aeruginosa pneumonia in a post-burn ovine model Fukuda et al. Shock 2019 [38]
↑ Human neutrophil antimicrobial functions Ruchaud-Sparagano et al. Immunol Cell Biol 2014 [69]

PHADs ↑ Recruitment of innate leukocytes to sites of P. aeruginosa & S. aureus infections Hernandez et al. Crit Care Med 2019 [21]
↑ Survival during P. aeruginosa & S. aureus infections Hernandez et al. Crit Care Med 2019 [21]
↑ Bacterial clearance during P. aeruginosa & S. aureus infections, which is preserved up to 10 days after treatment Hernandez et al. Crit Care Med 2019 [21]
↑ Antimicrobial functions of innate phagocytes Hernandez et al. Crit Care Med 2019 [21]
↓ Cytokines in the plasma & site of infection Hernandez et al. Crit Care Med 2019 [21]