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Signaling via Platelet-Activating Factor Receptors Accounts for the Impairment of Neutrophil Migration in Polymicrobial Sepsis¹

Susana E. Moreno^2,*, José C. Alves-Filho^2,*, Fabrício Rios-Santos^*, João S. Silva, Sérgio H. Ferreira^*, Fernando Q. Cunha^* and Mauro M. Teixeira^3,

^* Departamento de Farmacologia and Departamento de Imunologia, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and Departamento de Bioquímica e Imunologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Sepsis is a systemic inflammatory response that results from the inability of the immune system to limit bacterial spread during an ongoing infection. Recently, we have documented an impaired neutrophil migration toward the infectious focus in severe sepsis. This impairment seems to be mediated by circulating cytokines, chemokines, and NO. Platelet-activating factor (PAF) plays an important role in the orchestration of different inflammatory reactions, including the release of cytokines, chemokines, and free radicals. Using a PAFR antagonist, PCA-4248, and PAFR-deficient mice, we investigated whether signaling via PAFR was relevant for the failure of neutrophils to migrate to the site of infection after lethal sepsis caused by cecum ligation and puncture in mice. In PAFR-deficient mice or mice pretreated with PCA-4248 (5 mg/kg) and subjected to lethal sepsis, neutrophil migration failure was prevented, and bacterial clearance was more efficient. There was also reduced systemic inflammation (low serum cytokine levels), lower nitrate levels in plasma, and higher survival rate. Altogether, the results firmly establish a role for PAFR in mediating the early impairment of neutrophil migration toward the infectious focus. Blockade of PAFR may prevent the establishment of severe sepsis.

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