Hydrogen peroxide release by alveolar macrophages from sarcoid patients and by alveolar macrophages from normals after exposure to recombinant interferons alpha A, beta, and gamma and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • We measured H2O2 release by human alveolar macrophages (AM) from normals and sarcoid patients in suspension immediately after bronchoalveolar lavage in the presence and absence of the triggering agent, phorbol myristate acetate (PMA). AM from 11 sarcoid patients produced a mean (+/- SE) of 21.7 +/- 2.3 and 5.9 +/- 3.4 nmol H2O2/10(6) macrophages in the presence and absence of PMA, respectively. By contrast, AM from normals (n = 6) produced 9.8 +/- 1.7 and 1.6 +/- 0.7 nmol H2O2/10(6) macrophages with and without PMA, respectively. Macrophage activation, as monitored by H2O2 production, did not correlate with the angiotensin-converting enzyme levels, the result of gallium-67 scans, or the percent of lymphocytes in the bronchoalveolar lavage. To determine whether AM from normals could be stimulated to increase their H2O2 production to the level seen in patients with sarcoid, we measured H2O2 released by adherent AM after incubation in each of four potential activating agents: recombinant interferons alpha A, beta, gamma (rIFN alpha A, rIFN beta, and rIFN gamma, respectively), and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. H2O2 release in the range seen in sarcoid patients could be induced in PMA-triggered AM from normals by rIFN gamma in a time- (t1/2 approximately 1 d) and dose-dependent fashion (threefold increase, EC50 5 antiviral U/ml) and by rIFN alpha A and rIFN beta at higher concentrations, but not by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3.

publication date

  • August 1, 1987

Research

keywords

  • Calcitriol
  • Hydrogen Peroxide
  • Interferons
  • Macrophages
  • Sarcoidosis

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC442248

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0023390409

PubMed ID

  • 2440910

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 80

issue

  • 2