The Journal of Immunology, Vol 148, Issue 10 3086-3092, Copyright © 1992 by American Association of Immunologists

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Lung injury after deposition of IgA immune complexes. Requirements for CD18 and L-arginine

MS Mulligan, JS Warren, CW Smith, DC Anderson, CG Yeh, AR Rudolph and PA Ward
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109.

Acute lung injury produced by deposition of IgA immune complexes is complement-dependent, neutrophil-independent, oxygen radical-mediated, and may be a result of the formation of the hydroxyl radical (HO) generated directly or indirectly from activated lung macrophages. The current studies were designed to evaluate further the pathophysiologic events that occur after intrapulmonary deposition of IgA immune complexes. Pretreatment of rats with the human recombinant soluble complement receptor-1 resulted in marked attenuation of IgA immune complex-induced lung injury. Intravenous administration of antibody to CD18, but not antibody to CD11b, was highly protective against lung injury. Treatment of animals with either anti-endothelial leukocyte- adhesion molecule-1 or anti-TNF-alpha, both of which were highly protective against IgG immune complex-induced lung injury, had no protective effects in the model of IgA immune complex-induced lung injury. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed up-regulation of the endothelial leukocyte adhesion molecule-1 in the pulmonary vasculature after deposition of IgA immune complexes. This up-regulation was TNF- alpha-dependent. The arginine analog, NG-monomethyl-L-arginine, was highly protective against IgA immune complex-induced lung injury. This protective effect was reversed by the co-presence of L-arginine (but not D-arginine). Protective interventions against IgA immune complex- induced lung injury were inversely correlated with the numbers of macrophages that could be retrieved by lung lavage. These data suggest fundamental differences in the pathogenesis of lung injury after intrapulmonary deposition of IgA immune complexes, as compared with injury caused by deposition of IgG immune complexes. In the latter, neutrophils, intrapulmonary generation of TNF-alpha, and up-regulation of pulmonary vascular endothelial leukocyte-adhesion molecule-1 are required for the full development of lung injury, whereas no such requirements appear in the case of IgA immune complex-induced lung injury. Full expression of IgA immune complex-induced lung injury also appears to require L-arginine, suggesting a possible role for nitric oxide or its derivatives in events ultimately leading to injury.

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