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The Journal of Immunology, 2002, 169: 2044-2053.
Copyright © 2002 by The American Association of Immunologists

Key Role for Mast Cells in Nonatopic Asthma1

Aletta D. Kraneveld2, Hanneke P. M. van der Kleij, Mirjam Kool, Anneke H. van Houwelingen, Andrys C. D. Weitenberg, Frank A. M. Redegeld and Frans P. Nijkamp

Department of Pharmacology and Pathophysiology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

The mechanisms involved in nonatopic asthma are poorly defined. In particular, the importance of mast cells in the development of nonatopic asthma is not clear. In the mouse, pulmonary hypersensitivity reactions induced by skin sensitization with the low-m.w. compound dinitrofluorobenzene (DNFB) followed by an intra-airway application of the hapten have been featured as a model for nonatopic asthma. In present study, we used this model to examine the role of mast cells in the pathogenesis of nonatopic asthma. First, the effect of DNFB sensitization and intra-airway challenge with dinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (DNS) on mast cell activation was monitored during the early phase of the response in BALB/c mice. Second, mast cell-deficient W/Wv and Sl/Sld mice and their respective normal (+/+) littermate mice and mast cell-reconstituted W/Wv mice (bone marrow-derived mast cells->W/Wv) were used. Early phase mast cell activation was found, which was maximal 30 min after DNS challenge in DNFB-sensitized BALB/c, +/+ mice but not in mast cell-deficient mice. An acute bronchoconstriction and increase in vascular permeability accompanied the early phase mast cell activation. BALB/c, +/+ and bone marrow-derived mast cell->W/Wv mice sensitized with DNFB and DNS-challenged exhibited tracheal hyperreactivity 24 and 48 h after the challenge when compared with vehicle-treated mice. Mucosal exudation and infiltration of neutrophils in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid associated the late phase response. Both mast cell-deficient strains failed to show any features of this hypersensitivity response. Our findings show that mast cells play a key role in the regulation of pulmonary hypersensitivity responses in this murine model for nonatopic asthma.




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