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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 123, 1-8, Copyright © 1986 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Detection of lymphokines and lymphokine receptors in pulmonary sarcoidosis. Immunohistologic evidence that inflammatory macrophages express IL-2 receptors

WW Hancock, L Kobzik, AJ Colby, CJ O'Hara, AG Cooper and JJ Godleski

In an investigation of the immunopathogenesis of sarcoidosis, the authors undertook the tissue localization of those lymphokines and lymphokine receptors which are known to play a central role in T-cell and macrophage activation. Using monoclonal antibodies and an ABC immunoperoxidase technique. They determined the distribution of gamma interferon (IFN-g), interleukin-2 (IL-2), and corresponding IL-2 receptors (IL-2R), plus T cells and T cell subsets, B cells, and macrophages within thoracic lymph nodes and lung specimens of 9 patients with active pulmonary sarcoidosis. Epithelioid and multinucleate giant cells within sarcoid granulomas of all specimens showed membrane labeling for IL-2R and IFN-g, in addition to IL-2, suggesting that these cells indeed express functional IL-2 receptors. Infiltrating T cells, largely T4+, were also IL-2R+, and many showed IL- 2 and IFN-g labeling. By comparison, macrophages within sections of normal lung or lymph node failed to stain for IL-2, IL-2R, or IFN-g. These immunohistologic studies extend recent in vitro observations by these authors and others that normal human blood monocytes and alveolar macrophages are induced by IFN-g or IL-2 to express functional membrane- bound IL-2 receptors. The in vivo expression of IL-2R by mononuclear phagocytes in pulmonary sarcoidosis is demonstrated, and a new role is suggested for T-cell-derived lymphokines in macrophage activation.




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