The Journal of Immunology, Vol 147, Issue 12 4293-4301, Copyright © 1991 by American Association of Immunologists

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Endotoxin stimulates bronchial epithelial cells to release chemotactic factors for neutrophils. A potential mechanism for neutrophil recruitment, cytotoxicity, and inhibition of proliferation in bronchial inflammation

S Koyama, SI Rennard, GD Leikauf, S Shoji, S Von Essen, L Claassen and RA Robbins
Research Service, Omaha Veterans Affairs Medical Center, NE.

To test the effect of endotoxin on bronchial epithelial cells (BEC), BEC were isolated from bovine lungs and cultured in the presence of bacterial endotoxin. The BEC culture supernatant fluids were harvested, and neutrophil chemotactic activity (NCA) was determined with a blindwell chamber technique; cytotoxicity determined by lactate dehydrogenase release and BEC proliferation determined by Coulter counting. Endotoxin caused a dose- and time-dependent release of NCA from BEC cultures compared with media alone (82.3 +/- 8.1 vs 12.0 +/- 3.1 cells/high power field, p less than 0.001). To further characterize this activity, reverse phase HPLC analysis of release eicosanoid metabolites after [3H]arachidonic acid incorporation was performed. Endotoxin stimulated the release of the neutrophil chemoattractants, leukotriene B4 and 12-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids. Endotoxin also resulted in a dose and time dependent release of lactate dehydrogenase (42.9 +/- 4.2 vs 20.2 +/- 2.2 U/liter, p less than 0.001) although higher doses were required to cause cytotoxicity than to stimulate chemotaxis. Finally, endotoxin resulted in a dose dependent inhibition of BEC proliferation (176 x 10(3) +/- 16 x 10(3) vs 1,080 x 10(3) +/- 38 x 10(3) cells/ml measured at day 14, p less than 0.001). These data suggest that bacterial release of endotoxin may contribute to the pathophysiologic changes observed in bronchial inflammation by stimulating BEC to release NCA, denuding airway epithelium by causing cytotoxicity of BEC, and inhibiting epithelial repair by inhibiting BEC proliferation.

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