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Published ahead of print on November 20, 2003, doi:10.1165/rcmb.2003-0123OC

Am. J. Respir. Cell Mol. Biol., Volume 30, Number 5, May 2004, 744-750

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Submitted on April 7, 2003
Revised on November 20, 2003

Particle-epithelial interaction: effect of priming and bystander neutrophils on IL-8 release

Yaoyu Ning1, Florence Tao1, Guozhong Qin1, Amy Imrich1, Carroll-Ann Goldsmith1, Zhiping Yang1, and Lester Kobzik2*

1 Physiology Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA, 2 Physiology Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Dept. of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lkobzik{at}hsph.harvard.edu.

Exposure to ambient air pollution particles causes greater health effects in individuals with pre-existing inflammatory lung diseases. To model inflammatory priming in vitro, HTB54 lung epithelial cells were pre-treated with tumor necrosis factor-{alpha} (TNF-{alpha}) and then exposed to a panel of environmental particles, including concentrated ambient particles (CAPs). TNF-{alpha} priming significantly enhanced IL-8 secretion in response to CAPs and other urban air particles in HTB54 cells. Enhancement was seen with whole CAPs suspensions as well as with its separate water-soluble and -insoluble components. Treating CAPs suspensions with 20mM deferoxamine or 20 µM dimethylthiourea attenuated the enhancement, indicating that transition metals and oxidative stress participate in the CAPs-dependent IL-8 response of primed cells. Since activated neutrophils are also present in diseased lungs and are sources of additional oxidative stress on epithelial cells, primed HTB54 cells were cocultured with activated neutrophils. Wildtype neutrophils markedly enhanced IL-8 release to CAPs in primed HTB54 cells, an effect substantially diminished when neutrophils from NADPH knockout mice were used. Cytokine priming and interactions with activated neutrophils can amplify lung epithelial inflammatory responses to ambient air particles.






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