title: Prolonged exposure of neutrophils to saline or bronchoalveolar lavage fluid does not alter superoxide anion generation.
abstract: The role played by neutrophils (PMNs) in the genesis of lung injury in diverse clinical situations, such as bronchial asthma, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and the adult respiratory distress syndrome, is an area of intensive investigation. Functional studies of PMNs, particularly those obtained from the alveoli by bronchoalveolar lavage, should shed light on their contribution to lung injury. However, it has not been demonstrated whether procedures used to harvest cells from the lung (bronchoalveolar lavage), particularly the potentially prolonged exposure to saline, commonly used to perform lavage, and other components of lavage fluid, can alter the functional characteristics of PMNs. In this report we demonstrate that a 2- to 3-hour exposure of neutrophils to saline from both humans and sheep in vitro does not alter the functional characteristics of PMNs as determined by superoxide anion generation after activation with phorbol myristate acetate (PMA; 6.96 +/- 0.44 vs. 7.60 +/- 0.32 nmol O2-/250,000 PMNs for control and saline-treated human cells, respectively, after a 45-min incubation with 10(-7) M PMA, and 4.73 +/- 0.30 vs. 4.50 +/- 0.42 nmol O2-/250,000 PMNs for control and saline-treated sheep cells). In a second series of experiments, we studied the effect of exposure of human PMNs to bronchoalveolar lavage fluid supernatants obtained from normal volunteers on superoxide anion generation by neutrophils.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Shusterman
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Barnett
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ishihara
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Gottlieb
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Albertine
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Gee
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Peters
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001992:Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003470:Culture Media; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D009240:N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine / Q000494:pharmacology; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D012756:Sheep; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013481:Superoxides / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D013481:Superoxides; D012965:Sodium Chloride; D009240:N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate