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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 142, Issue 9 3213-3218, Copyright © 1989 by American Association of Immunologists

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Platelet-activating factor production in human neutrophils by sequential stimulation with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor and the chemotactic factors C5A or formyl-methionyl-leucyl- phenylalanine

U Wirthmueller, AL De Weck and CA Dahinden
Institute of Clinical Immunology, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland.

Besides its function as a growth factor, the cytokine granulocyte- macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) "primes" polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) for enhanced biologic responses to a number of secondary stimuli. We examined the effect of priming PMN with GM-CSF on the production of [3H] platelet-activating factor (PAF) from [3H]acetate upon stimulation with the chemotactic factors FMLP and C5a. In PMN stimulated with the individual peptide mediators alone [3H]PAF levels were close to controls, whereas considerable amounts of [3H]PAF are formed after stimulation of PMN which have been preexposed to GM- CSF. The priming effect was concentration and time dependent. It was optimal after a preincubation period of 2 h. A maximum of [3H]PAF accumulation is reached within 2.5 min (C5a) and 5.0 min (FMLP) after activation of GM-CSF-primed PMN. In addition, we show that PAF isolated from PMN preincubated with GM-CSF and triggered with chemotactic factors is able to enhance the respiratory burst in PMN. PAF formed by sequentially activated PMN could contribute to the enhanced oxygen radical production and cytotoxicity in effector cells and play a role in modulating and amplifying inflammatory reactions.


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