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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 135, 571-580, Copyright © 1989 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Secretion of monocyte chemotactic activity by alveolar macrophages

EM Denholm, FM Wolber and SH Phan
Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109-0602.

The purpose of this study was to determine if alveolar macrophages (AMs) are a source of monocyte chemoattractants and the role bleomycin interaction with AMs may play in the recruitment of monocytes to the lung in a rodent model of bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis. AMs isolated from rats with bleomycin-induced fibrosis secreted significantly greater amounts of monocyte chemoattractants than those isolated from normal rats. When AMs from normal rats were stimulated with bleomycin in vitro, monocyte chemotactic activity was secreted into the medium. Chemotactic activity secretion by AM stimulated with 0.01 to 0.1 micrograms/ml bleomycin was significantly higher than that of cells incubated in medium alone. This activity was truly chemotactic for monocytes, but caused only minimal migration of normal AMs. Bleomycin itself at concentrations of 1 pg/ml to 10 micrograms/ml had no monocyte chemoattractant activity. Characterization of the chemotactic activity in conditioned media (CM) from bleomycin- stimulated AM demonstrated that the major portion of the activity bound to gelatin, was heterogeneous, with estimated molecular weights of 20 to 60 kd, and was inactivated by specific antifibronectin antibody. These findings suggest that fibronectin fragments are primarily responsible for the monocyte chemotactic activity secreted by AMs. Through increased secretion of such chemotactic substances, AMs could play a key role in the recruitment of peripheral blood monocytes into the lung in inflammatory lung disease and fibrosis.


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