title: Oxygen metabolites from lavage and interstitial lung cells after inhalation of endotoxin in guinea pigs.
abstract: Airborne endotoxins play a role in a variety of occupational diseases such as byssinosis and humidifier's disease and are associated with pulmonary and systemic symptoms. An excess generation of oxygen free radicals (including superoxide anion, O2-) by inflammatory cells has been suggested in endotoxemia. We have studied the release of superoxide from guinea-pig lung lavage and interstitial cells and blood monocytes (BMs) at different times after an acute inhalation exposure to bacterial endotoxin. O2- generation was measured by the O2- dismutase-inhibitable reduction of ferricytochrome c, after stimulation with phorbol-myristate-acetate (PMA) or opsonized zymosan (OZ). After endotoxin exposure, the spontaneous release of O2- remained unchanged for the three cell types. From 4 h after exposure until 48 h afterwards, lung lavage cells produced more O2- after PMA or OZ stimulation than did cells from unexposed guinea pigs. The pattern of O2- generation by interstitial cells followed that of lung lavage macrophages. O2- production remained unchanged in BMs at all times. These results suggest that endotoxin inhalation induced a priming of lavage and interstitial cells, mainly macrophages, associated with an increase in O2- production. As O2- production by BMs remained unchanged, this cell is unlikely to be responsible for the systemic symptoms seen after endotoxin inhalation.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hsieh
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Amoruso-Marchat
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rylander
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Polla
mesh_terms: D000280:Administration, Inhalation; D000818:Animals; D001992:Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / Q000166:cytology; D002452:Cell Count / Q000187:drug effects; D004731:Endotoxins / Q000633:toxicity*; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D008168:Lung / Q000166:cytology* / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D016676:Macrophages, Alveolar / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D009000:Monocytes / Q000187:drug effects; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000378:metabolism*; D013481:Superoxides / Q000378:metabolism; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D004731:Endotoxins; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species; D013481:Superoxides; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate