Leukotriene C4 production from human eosinophils in vitro. Role of eosinophil chemotactic factors on eosinophil activation.
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- 15 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 141 (12) , 4291-4297
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.141.12.4291
Abstract
We studied the role of naturally occurring eosinophil chemotactic factors on leukotriene (LT)C4 production from highly purified (87.1 +/- 2.4%) normodense eosinophils. Platelet activating factor (PAF) directly induced LTC4 production from eosinophils in a dose (10(-9) to 10(-5) M) and a time-dependent manner. PAF (10(-5) M) induced 0.74 +/- 0.08 ng of LTC4 production/10(6) eosinophils. However, lyso-PAF, eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis, and LTB4 failed to induce LTC4 production within the tested range. Furthermore, the pre-incubation of eosinophils with 5 micrograms/ml of cytochalasin B did not alter the chemotactic factor-induced LTC4 production. When eosinophils were stimulated by the submaximal concentration (1 microgram/ml) of calcium ionophore A23187, the pre-incubation of eosinophils with 10(-6) M or 10(-5) M of PAF, or 10(-5) M of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis significantly enhanced LTC4 production up to 163.9 +/- 17.5% (p less than 0.05), 279.2 +/- 32.9% (p less than 0.01) and 165.2 +/- 21.2% (p less than 0.05) of the control, respectively. However, the pre-incubation with lyso-PAF or LTB4 failed to enhance A23187-induced LTC4 production. The pre-incubation of eosinophils with phosphatidyl serine also failed to enhance A23187-induced LTC4 production. However, the direct stimulation of protein kinase C by PMA enhanced the submaximal concentration of A23187-induced LTC4 production from eosinophils up to 179.5 +/- 20.9% (p less than 0.05) of the control. Our findings indicate that PAF and ECF-A work not only as chemotactic factors but also induce a functionally active state of eosinophils probably through their post-receptor mechanisms, and contribute to the inflammatory processes.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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