EOSINOPENIA OF ACUTE INFECTION - PRODUCTION OF EOSINOPENIA BY CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS OF ACUTE-INFLAMMATION
EOSINOPENIA OF ACUTE INFECTION - PRODUCTION OF EOSINOPENIA BY CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS OF ACUTE-INFLAMMATION
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DOI:
10.1172/jci109789
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
15.9
通讯作者:
MCCALL, CE
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作者:
BASS, DA;GONWA, TA;MCCALL, CE
One distinctive aspect of the response to acute inflammation involves a rapid and persistent decrease in numbers of circulating eosinophils, yet the mechanisms of this eosinopenia are undefined. The abrupt eosinopenia may be the result of release of small amounts of the chemotactic factors of acute inflammation into the circulation. The numbers of circulating eosinophils were examined after an i.v. injection of zymosan-activated serum, partially purified C5a [fragment a of complement component 5] or the synthetic peptide, N-formylmethionylleucylphenylalanine. Each of these factors caused a virtual disappearance of circulating eosinophils within 1 min, a transient return of eosinophils to .apprx. 50% of control levels after 10-90 min and a subsequent decrease which persisted for 5 h. The numbers of circulating heterophils, although dropping transiently, rapidly returned and rose to elevated levels for 6 h after injection. The response was not caused by adrenal mediation as it occurred normally in adrenalectomized rabbits. Two chemotaxins of allergic inflammation, histamine and the tetrapeptide valine-glycine-serine-glutamic acid, did not cause significant eosinopenia. Circulating granulocytes of patients undergoing hemodialysis, which activates C, demonstrated similar eosinopenic and neutropenic-neutrophilic responses. In rabbits and in man intravascular activation or injection of chemotactic factors (C5a or N-formylmethionylleucylphenylalanine) causes brief, nonspecific granulocytopenia followed by a prolonged eosinopenic-neutrophilic response analogous to that seen during acute infection.