Estudo da inibição do oxido nitrico sobre funções de eosinofilos humanos estimulados com eotaxina e RANTES in vitro / Study of nitric oxide inhibition in human eosinophil functions stimulated in vitro with eotaxin and RANTES

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

Eosinophils participate in the pathogenesis of many inflammatory diseases, including parasitic infections and allergic diseases. Of the allergic diseases, asthma is characterized by eosinophilia. Currently, asthma affects 300 million people in world, and is an important public health problem. Asthma is an inflammatory chronic disease that involves interactions between external and genetic factors, and has lung inflammation and bronchial hyperresponsiveness as major features. The recruitment of eosinophils into airways contributes to the asthma chronic character. The eosinophil migration to inflamed tissue is a complex process regulated by several factors, including cytokines, chemokines, nitric oxide (NO) and adhesion molecule interactions. Previous studies have investigated the functional interactions between NO and CC-chemokines. Young et al. (1999) showed that the number of eosinophils in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid of challenged monkeys is markedly increased at 24 h post-challenge, accompanied by higher levels of both exhaled NO and eotaxin in BAL fluid. In rhinitis patients, eotaxin increased the number of eosinophils in the nasal lavage fluid, and that was also accompanied by elevated nasal NO levels (Hanazawa et al., 1999). In contrast, in murine models of asthma, selective inhibition of inducible NOS resulted in a reduction in pulmonary eosinophil migration (Feder et al., 1997; Iijima et al., 2001), with an increased expression of the CC-chemokine monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) in the lung tissue (Trifilieff et al., 2000). Moreover, NO (or NO donors) have also been shown to inhibit the production of RANTES (Frank et al., 2000). Nitric oxide via peroxynitrite (ONOO-) formation is reported to reduce eotaxin-induced eosinophil migration (Sato et al., 2000). However, the modulatory role of NO in the CC-chemokines-mediated eosinophil functions is still not well understood. Therefore, the present study was designed to investigate the modulatory effect of NO in the enhanced eosinophil adhesion, chemotaxis and degranulation induced by the Ccchemokines eotaxin and RANTES in vitro, and the expression of VLA-4 and Mac-1 on the eosinophil surface. We therefore carried out functional assays (adhesion and degranulation), flow cytometry analysis of adhesion molecules (VLA-4 and Mac-1 expression) and investigation of tyrosine nitration to evaluate the interactions between NO and CC-chemokines in human eosinophils. MTT assays showed that incubation of eosinophils for 2, 3 or 4 hours with eotaxin (10, 100 and 1000 ng/ml) or RANTES (10, 100 and 1000 ng/ml) did not affect cellular viability and, in some conditions, even caused cellular activation. The results of adhesion to fibronectin showed that eotaxin (10, 100 and 1000 ng/ml) or RANTES (10, 100 and 1000 ng/ml) did not increase eosinophil adhesion at 2 or 3 hours of incubation. Nevertheless, the incubation of eosinophils for 4 hours with eotaxin or RANTES significantly increased adhesion to fibronectin. L-NAME (0.1 mM), alone, significantly increased eosinophil adhesion to fibronectin; however the co-incubation of L-NAME with eotaxin (or RANTES) did not affect the adhesion of each agent. Moreover, expression of VLA-4 and Mac-1 were not modified by any of the experimental conditions. Eotaxin and RANTES did not increase eosinophil cGMP levels under the same conditions in which SNP (0.1mM), used as a positive control, significantly increased the levels of this second messenger. Furthermore, eosinophils treated with L-NAME, eotaxin and RANTES, alone, demonstrated degranulation, however the co-incubation of eosinophils with L-NAME and eotaxin (or RANTES) did not alter this response. Chemotaxis assays showed a significant eosinophil (treated or not with L-NAME) migration in response to eotaxin or RANTES. Western blotting for 3-nitrotyrosine-3 showed a lack of nitrated proteins in eosinophils from healthy or asthmatic donors. Taken together, results show that, under the experimental conditions established, NO does not modulate adhesion, migration and degranulation in eotaxin or RANTES-stimulated eosinophils.

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oxido nitrico nitric oxide chemokine ccl11 eotaxina asma adhesion molecules eosinophils moleculas de adesão eosinofilos rantes asthma

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