HUMAN ALVEOLAR MACROPHAGES SYNTHESIZE FACTOR-VII INVITRO - POSSIBLE ROLE IN INTERSTITIAL LUNG-DISEASE
HUMAN ALVEOLAR MACROPHAGES SYNTHESIZE FACTOR-VII INVITRO - POSSIBLE ROLE IN INTERSTITIAL LUNG-DISEASE
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DOI:
10.1172/jci111922
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
FAIR, DS
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CHAPMAN, HA;ALLEN, CL;FAIR, DS
Both fibrin and tissue macrophages are prominent in the histopathology of chronic inflammatory pulmonary disease. The procoagulant activity of freshly lavaged human alveolar macrophages was examined in vitro. Intact macrophages (5 .times. 105 cells) from 13 healthy volunteers promoted clotting of whole plasma in a mean of 65 s. Macrophage procoagulant activity was at least partially independent of exogenous factor VII as judged by a mean clotting time of 99 s in factor VII-deficient plasma and by neutralization of procoagulant activity by an antibody to factor VII. Immunoprecipitation of extracts of macrophages metabolically labeled with [35S]methionine by factor VII antibody and analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed a labeled protein consistent in size with the known MW of blood factor VII, 48,000. The addition of 50 .mu.g of unlabeled, purified factor VII blocked recovery of the 48,000 MW protein. In addition, supernatants of cultured macrophages from 6 normal volunteers had factor X-activating activity that was suppressed an average of 71% after culture in the presence of 50 .mu.M coumadin or entirely by the factor VII antibody indicating that factor VII synthesized by the cell was biologically active. Endotoxin in vitro induced increases in cellular tissue factor but had no consistent effect on macrophage factor VII activity. The tissue factor and factor VII activities of freshly lavaged alveolar cells from 9 subjects with clinical and/or histologic evidence of sarcoidosis. Four of the 9 subjects expressed increased tissue factor and 7 of 9 had increased factor VII activity over the normal range (P < 0.01). The mean factor VII associated with the cells of sarcoid patients was estimated to be 4.7 ng/106 cells (range 0.4-20) as compared to a mean of 0.74 ng/106 cells (range 0.2-2) for that of normal subjects. Along with previous data showing synthesis of plasminogen activator, these findings indicate that human alveolar macrophages normally synthesize and express measurable amounts of the initial enzymes of proteolytic reactions regulating both fibrin deposition and fibrin resorption. Abnormalities in factor VII activity in a small group of patients with sarcoidosis raise the possiblity that modulation of fibrin turnover by macrophages may contribute to the pathology of this and perhaps other interstitial lung diseases.