title: Eosinophils and immune mechanisms. VI. The synergistic combination of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and IL-5 accounts for eosinophil-stimulation promoter activity in Schistosoma mansoni-infected mice.
abstract: Eosinophil stimulation promoter (ESP) is a lymphokine activity that stimulates eosinophil migration and is produced by mitogen or specific Ag stimulation of spleen cells from mice infected with Schistosoma mansoni. It is also produced by intact, schistosome egg-induced granulomas isolated from the livers of such mice without additional antigenic exposure. The production of ESP activity is decreased during chronic infection in a time course coordinate with granuloma modulation. Characterization of ESP was pursued to determine its relationship to other cytokines and to identify factors that may play a role in granuloma formation and modulation. Chromatographic separations, assays of recombinant cytokines, and cytokine-specific immunodepletions were used in the characterization. ESP+ supernatant fluids contain both granulocyte-macrophage CSF and IL-5. The removal of both granulocyte-macrophage CSF and IL-5 is required to eliminate ESP activity, and together they act synergistically to constitute ESP.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37212.
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Secor
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Colley
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004357:Drug Synergism; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000502:physiology*; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor; D006133:Growth Substances / Q000494:pharmacology*; D007158:Immunologic Techniques; D015848:Interleukin-5 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008222:Lymphokines / Q000032:analysis / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D012555:Schistosomiasis mansoni / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D003115:Colony-Stimulating Factors; D006133:Growth Substances; D015848:Interleukin-5; D008222:Lymphokines; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; C022227:eosinophil stimulating promoter; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor