Linoleic Acid Hydroperoxide: Impaired Bacterial Uptake by Alveolar Macrophages, a Mechanism of Oxidant Lung Injury

Abstract
Exogenous linoleic acid hydroperoxide causes in vitro impairment of both bacterial uptake and the phagocytic stimulation of (14)CO(2) production from [1-(14)C]glucose in rabbit alveolar macrophages by an undefined effect on the cell membrane. This effect may be one mechanism for the defective pulmonary bacterial clearance characteristic of oxidant lung injury.