WOUND MACROPHAGES EXPRESS TGF-ALPHA AND OTHER GROWTH-FACTORS INVIVO - ANALYSIS BY MESSENGER-RNA PHENOTYPING
WOUND MACROPHAGES EXPRESS TGF-ALPHA AND OTHER GROWTH-FACTORS INVIVO - ANALYSIS BY MESSENGER-RNA PHENOTYPING
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DOI:
10.1126/science.3041594
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发表时间:
1988-08-05
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影响因子:
56.9
通讯作者:
WERB, Z
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作者:
RAPPOLEE, DA;MARK, D;WERB, Z
The presence of macrophages is required for the regeneration of many cell types during wound healing. Marcrophages have been reported to express a wide range of mitogenic factors and cytokines, but none of these factors has shown in vivo to sustain all the wound-healing process. It has been suggested that transforming factor-.alpha. (TGF-.alpha.) may mediate angiogenesis, epidermal regrowth, and formation of granulation tissue in vivo. Macrophages isolated from a wound site, and not exposed to cell culture conditions, expressed messenger RNA transcript fro TGF-.alpha., TGF-.beta., platelet-derived growth factor A-chain, and insulin-like growth factor-1. The expression of these transcripts was determined by a novel method for RNA analysis in which low numbers of mouse macrophages were isolated from wound cylinders, their RNA was purified and reverse-transcribed, and the complementary DNA was amplified in a polymerase chain reaction primed with growth factor sequence-specific primers. This single-cell RNA phenotyping procedure is rapid and has the potential for quantification, and mRNA transcripts from a single cell or a few cells can be unambiguously demonstrated, with the simultaneous analysis of several mRNA species. Macrophages from wounds expressed TGF-.alpha. antigen, and wound fluids contained TGF-.alpha.. Elicited macrophages in culture also expressed TGF-.alpha. transcripts and polypeptide in a time-dependent manner after stimulation with modified low-density lipoproteins and lipopolysaccharide endotoxin, which are characteristic of the activators found in injured tissues.