title: Ethanol suppression of peripheral blood mononuclear cell trafficking across brain endothelial cells in immunodeficiency virus infection.
abstract: Earlier studies suggested that the combination of alcohol use and immunodeficiency virus infection resulted in more severe neurologic disease than either condition individually. These deleterious interactions could be due to increased immune cell and virus trafficking or may result from interactions between ethanol and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-associated toxicity within the brain. To determine the extent to which increased trafficking played a role, we examined the effect of ethanol on the migration of different peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMCs) subsets across a brain endothelial cell monolayer. We utilized combinations of feline brain endothelial cells with astrocytes, and/or microglia with either acute exposure to 0.08 g/dL ethanol, a combination of ethanol and feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), or FIV alone. Adherence of PBMCs to endothelium was increased in all combinations of cells with the addition of ethanol. Despite increased PBMC adhesion with ethanol treatment, transmigration of B cells, monocytes, CD4 T cells and CD8 T cells was not increased and was actually decreased in the presence of astrocytes. Expression of three common adhesion molecules, intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM1), ICAM2, and vascular cell adhesion molecule, was unchanged or slightly decreased by ethanol. This indicated that although adherence is increased by ethanol it is not due to an increased expression of adhesion molecules. RANTES, MIP1α, MIP1β, and MCP-1 mRNA expression was also studied in brain endothelial cells, astrocytes and microglia by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. Ethanol treatment of astrocytes resulted in modest changes of message while FIV caused 7-92-fold increases. The combination of ethanol and FIV reversed the large increase in RANTES and MIP1α message in astrocytes but increased MIP1β and MCP to 20-38-fold over control cells. Thus, modest concentrations of alcohol do not directly influence immune cell trafficking at the endothelium but may exert more complex effects on chemokine expression from astrocytes when combined with FIV.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
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authors.lastname: Hudson
authors.forename: Brenda A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Colby
authors.forename: Rick B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Meeker
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