title: Vestigial respiratory burst activity in wound macrophages.
abstract: Macrophages from experimental wounds in rats were tested for their capacity to generate reactive oxygen intermediates. Measurements of superoxide and H2O2 release, O-2-dependent lucigenin chemiluminescence, oxygen consumption, hexose monophosphate shunt flux, and NADPH oxidase activity in cell lysates indicated, at best, the presence of a vestigial respiratory burst response in these cells. The inability of wound cells to release O-2 was not rekindled by priming with endotoxin or interferon-gamma in vivo or in vitro. NADPH oxidase activity in a cell-free system demonstrated that wound macrophage membranes, but not their cytosols, were capable of sustaining maximal rates of O-2 production when mixed with their corresponding counterparts from human neutrophils. Immune detection experiments showed wound macrophages to be particularly deficient in the cytosolic component of the NADPH oxidase p47-phox. Addition of recombinant p47-phox to the human neutrophil-cell membrane/wound macrophage cytosol cell-free oxidase assay, however, failed to support O-2 production. Present findings indicate an unexpected deficit of wound macrophages in their capacity to generate reactive oxygen intermediates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA.
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Nessel
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Henry
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mastrofrancesco
authors.forename: J S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Reichner
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Albina
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003600:Cytosol / Q000502:physiology; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism; D006019:Glycolysis / Q000502:physiology; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide / Q000378:metabolism; D008264:Macrophages / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D017737:Macrophages, Peritoneal / Q000378:metabolism; D008297:Male; D019255:NADPH Oxidases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D010427:Pentose Phosphate Pathway / Q000502:physiology; D010750:Phosphoproteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D016897:Respiratory Burst / Q000502:physiology*; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase / Q000494:pharmacology; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate / Q000494:pharmacology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D010750:Phosphoproteins; D006861:Hydrogen Peroxide; D013482:Superoxide Dismutase; D019255:NADPH Oxidases; C060505:neutrophil cytosolic factor 1; D005947:Glucose; D013755:Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate; D010100:Oxygen