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Factor-specific changes in oxidative burst response of human neutrophils in skin-window exudates

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Human neutrophils were isolated from blood and aseptic inflammatory exudates. The respiratory burst response was measured as superoxide (O −2 ) production by a microplate assay system and polarographically as oxygen consumption. Exudate cells exhibited a respiratory burst in response ton-formyl-methionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (FMLP) that was two- to threefold higher than the burst exhibited by peripheral blood cells. The O −2 production induced by substance P was also found to be fivefold higher in exudate cells, while the metabolic response to other stimulants such as concanavalin A (con A), phorbol-myristate acetate (PMA), NaF, and immunocomplexes was not primed. Serum-treated zymosan (STZ) -stimulated activity was primed by only 11%. In contrast, superoxide production in response to tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF) was decreased in exudate versus blood cells by about 50%. Therefore, the skin-window cells, compared to blood cells, appear to be at the same time primed, unmodified, and desensitized, according to the different stimulants employed.

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    Domenico Biasi, Lisa M. Bambara, Antonio Carletto & Maria Caraffi

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    Salvatore Chirumbolo & Paolo Bellavite

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Biasi, D., Bambara, L.M., Carletto, A. et al. Factor-specific changes in oxidative burst response of human neutrophils in skin-window exudates. Inflammation 17, 13–23 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00916388

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