Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein-1 and RANTES Are Chemotactic for Graft Infiltrating Lymphocytes during Acute Lung Allograft Rejection

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Graft infiltrating lymphocytes (GILs) are crucial to rejection of lung allografts. However, chemotactic activities, chemokines responsible for GIL recruitment, and cells involved in chemokine production during lung allograft rejection have not been evaluated. This study determined whether chemotactic activity for GILs is upregulated, and whether the chemokines monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP)-1 and regulated on activation, normal T cells expressed and secreted (RANTES) have roles in GIL chemotaxis during lung allograft rejection. F344 (RT1lv1) rat lung allografts were transplanted into WKY (RT1l) recipients. Chemotactic activity for GILs and quantities of MCP-1 and RANTES were determined in allograft bronchoalveolar lavage fluid 1 wk after transplantation. Data showed that during rejection, chemotactic activity for GILs is upregulated, MCP-1 and RANTES are produced locally, and both MCP-1 and RANTES are operative in GIL recruitment. Immunohistochemistry showed that alveolar macrophages (AMs) were th...