title: Vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 and eosinophil adhesion to cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells in vitro.
abstract: Cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cell (EC) monolayers stimulated with 10 ng/ml tumor necrosis factor demonstrate a time-dependent increase in the expression of the vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) with maintained maximal expression at 24 h following EC activation. A monoclonal antibody (mAb) directed against VCAM-1 (1G11) significantly inhibited the adhesion of eosinophils, but not neutrophils, to EC, which had been activated by tumor necrosis factor-alpha for 24 h, but only when eosinophils had been pretreated with an mAb directed against the common beta chain of the CD11/CD18 complex. In the absence of pretreatment with anti-CD18, mAb 1G11 had no significant effect on eosinophil adhesion. These results suggest that eosinophils bind to VCAM-1. However, the functional capacity in this model of the eosinophil receptor for VCAM-1 is likely to be minor compared with the activity of the CD11/CD18 leukocyte adhesion molecules.
authors.affiliation: Department of Allergy, United Medical School, Guy's Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kyan-Aung
authors.forename: D O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: Haskard
authors.forename: T H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D002448:Cell Adhesion; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules / Q000378:metabolism*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D019040:E-Selectin; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha / Q000494:pharmacology; D014471:Umbilical Veins; D019010:Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1
chemical_list: D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules; D019040:E-Selectin; D014409:Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha; D019010:Vascular Cell Adhesion Molecule-1