HYPEROXIA STIMULATES NEWBORN SD RAT’S ALVEOLAR MACROPHAGE SECRETING INTERLEUKIN 8

Zhang XH, Chang LW, Xia SW

Department of Pediatrics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

 

Objective: To investigate the role of hyperoxia in newborn SD rat’s alveolar macrophage secreting interleukin 8 (IL-8).

Methods: We use bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) method to gain alveolar macrophages (AM) from newborn SD rats. After purified, AM were randomly assigned to four groups: group I (air group), group II (hyperoxia group) , group III (air plus lipopolysaccharide (LPS) group), group IV (hyperoxia plus LPS group). Group II and group IV were sealed and flushed the culture bottles with 100% oxygen at 2L/min for 10min, then cultured 48 hours. Group III and group IV were given LPS (10μg/ml) as soon as exposed to hyperoxia. Oxygen concentration were test and supernatants were harvested after 48 hours exposed. If the oxygen concentration <90%, the example was discarded. L-lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity and IL-8 content of supernatants were examined in all groups.

Results: After 48 hours exposed, the LDH activity weren’t significant difference in all groups. IL-8 content of supernatants were increased significantly in group II as compared with group I(P<0.05), and it also increased significantly in group IV as compared with group III (P<0.01). IL-8 content in group IV was highest among four groups, group III followed, group II was lowest than those of group III and group IV, but still higher than that of group I. There were significant difference among four groups.

Conclusion: Hyperoxia alone or LPS alone had stimulation to AM, while the latter was stronger, the combination of hyperoxia and LPS had synergistic stimulation; IL-8 may play an important role in hyperoxia lung injury, and AM may be an important source of IL-8 in BAL fluid in vivo.

 

 
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