title: Sublethal doses of exogenous hydrogen peroxide prime human neutrophils to formyl peptide.
abstract: Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is an oxidative agent important in inflammation and ischemia. Neutrophils (PMNs) are a main source of H2O2 in the inflammatory focus. However, after recruitment into the inflammatory or ischemic zone of the heart, the PMN itself might serve as a target for exogenous H2O2. In the present work we found that PMNs are very resistant to the cytotoxic action of H2O2 (LD50 for PMNs is about 30-50 mM, whereas for endothelial cells it is about 200-300 microM). Unexpectedly, treatment of PMNs by H2O2 at a sublethal dose of 10 mM leads to a subsequent increase in the generation of superoxide anion in response to the chemoattractant peptide FMLP (twofold increase in O2- generation 30 min after treatment by H2O2 as compared with nontreated control cells). H2O2 itself does not induce O2- generation by PMNs. Therefore, any H2O2 that accumulated in the inflammatory or ischemic zone might alter the functional activity of PMNs and prime them to subsequent agonist activation.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Cardiology, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Puchnina-Artushenko
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Ledenev
authors.forename: E K
authors.initials: EK
authors.lastname: Ruuge
authors.forename: V R
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Muzykantov
mesh_terms: D002499:Centrifugation, Density Gradient; D006801:Humans; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009240:N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology*; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000378:metabolism; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D013481:Superoxides / Q000378:metabolism*; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D013481:Superoxides; D009240:N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate