title: Macrophage prostaglandin E2 and oxidative responses to endotoxin during immunosuppression associated with anaesthesia and transfusion.
abstract: The widespread use of blood transfusion in major surgical procedures has led to concern about the immunosuppressive effect of transfusion on patients with underlying malignancy. Transfusion may also suppress the host response to infection. The cellular mechanisms of transfusion-associated immunosuppression may involve macrophage prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) in modulating the host response to cancer and infection. We previously observed that the transfusion of blood increased PGE2 production by unstimulated macrophages. To investigate this PGE2 associated immunosuppression, we studied the effect of transfusion of rats using a physiological stimulus of macrophage PGE2 production, bacterial endotoxin. In the same macrophages, we analysed intracellular oxidative activity. Both allogeneic and syngeneic blood transfusion were associated with increased PGE2 release by macrophages. This stimulation of PGE2 increased with duration of storage of blood. A similar effect of serum indicated that a humoral factor was involved. Endotoxin (50 ng/ml-500 micrograms/ml) stimulated PGE2 production in all transfused subjects. The lowest endotoxin concentration gave proportionately the greatest stimulation. Oxidative activity was down-regulated in macrophages of transfused rats, supporting an immunosuppressive role of PGE2 within the macrophage. An effect of surgery on the oxidative response was also detected.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: W B
authors.initials: WB
authors.lastname: Ross
authors.forename: H A
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: Leaver
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Yap
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Raab
authors.forename: B H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Su
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Carter
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Mao
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Qian
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Prescott
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000009:adverse effects; D000818:Animals; D015232:Dinoprostone / Q000378:metabolism*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004731:Endotoxins / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000633:toxicity*; D007108:Immune Tolerance / Q000502:physiology*; D017737:Macrophages, Peritoneal / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D051381:Rats; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D013481:Superoxides / Q000378:metabolism; D065227:Transfusion Reaction
chemical_list: D004731:Endotoxins; D013481:Superoxides; D015232:Dinoprostone