title: Luminol-dependent chemiluminescence in bovine eosinophils and neutrophils: differential increase of intracellular and extracellular chemiluminescence induced by soluble stimulants.
abstract: Luminol chemiluminescence was used to detect activation of the respiratory burst oxidase in bovine eosinophils and neutrophils. Extracellular and intracellular chemiluminescence were measured by supplementing the medium with horseradish peroxidase and catalase, respectively. Pure bovine eosinophils (greater than 90%), maximally stimulated with 1 nmol/l phorbol 12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA) showed ten times more extracellular luminol-dependent chemiluminescence (CL) than maximally stimulated pure bovine neutrophils (greater than 96%). Extracellular CL from eosinophils was preferably induced over intracellular CL by both PMA (27-fold difference) and platelet-activating factor (PAF) at 2 mumol/l (9-fold difference), but not by calcium ionophore A23187 (15 mumol/l). Time course information was used in the following experiments to distinguish between the mode of action of various stimulants. A progressively longer lag period was observed in eosinophil suspensions treated with decreasing doses of PMA, whereas platelet-activating factor induced a dose-dependent increase in the maximum response with no change in time to peak CL. The time course of extracellular CL was almost identical to intracellular CL for all stimulants tested, providing no evidence to suggest that extracellular CL stems from a different enzyme system than intracellular CL. Eosinophils generated most extracellular CL when stimulated with PMA, whereas neutrophils were most efficiently stimulated with A23187, which induced intracellular CL in eosinophils as well as in neutrophils. This accords with the greater tendency of neutrophils to ingest and kill microorganisms, whereas eosinophils are armed to destroy large extracellular targets.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, University of Freiburg, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Freiburghaus
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jörg
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000001:Calcimycin / Q000494:pharmacology; D002417:Cattle; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D005110:Extracellular Space / Q000378:metabolism; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007424:Intracellular Fluid / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008163:Luminescent Measurements; D008165:Luminol / Q000378:metabolism*; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D012995:Solubility; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000001:Calcimycin; D008165:Luminol; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate