title: Cardiac myocytes exposed to anoxia-reoxygenation promote neutrophil transendothelial migration.
abstract: The goal of the present study was to assess whether cardiac myocytes exposed to anoxia-reoxygenation (A/R) could generate a chemotactic gradient for polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN) transendothelial migration. Exposure of neonatal mouse cardiac myocytes to A/R induced an oxidant stress in the myocytes. Supernatants obtained from A/R-conditioned myocytes promoted mouse PMN migration across mouse myocardial endothelial cell monolayers. This increase in PMN transendothelial migration could be prevented if catalase or a platelet-activating factor (PAF) antagonist was added to the supernatants before assay. Supernatants from A/R-conditioned myocytes activated endothelial cells by inducing an intracellular oxidant stress. The oxidant stress and PMN transendothelial migration induced by supernatants from A/R-conditioned myocytes were substantially reduced when endothelial cells derived from manganese superoxide dismutase overexpressing mice were used in the assays. Supernatants from A/R-conditioned myocytes also increased endothelial cell surface levels of E-selectin and intercellular adhesion molecule-1. Our results indicate that cardiac myocytes exposed to A/R can generate a chemotactic gradient, presumably due to production and release of stable oxidants and PAF. The ability of supernatants from A/R-conditioned myocytes to promote PMN transendothelial migration was largely dependent on induction of an oxidant stress in endothelial cells. In addition, these supernatants also induced a proadhesive phenotype in the endothelial cells.
authors.affiliation: Vascular Cell Biology Laboratory, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 4G5.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Rui
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Cepinskas
authors.forename: Q
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Y S
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Kvietys
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002465:Cell Movement; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000502:physiology*; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000502:physiology*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen