Affiliation:
1. National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver 80206.
Abstract
Platelet-activating factor (PAF) has been implicated as a mediator of airway hyperresponsiveness. PAF, infused intra-arterially into the canine cervical trachea, causes adherence of neutrophils to vascular endothelium, increases vascular permeability, and increases the responsiveness of tracheal muscle to parasympathetic stimulation. We hypothesized that the increase in airway responsiveness induced by PAF in this model depends on the presence of neutrophils. To test this hypothesis, we perfused a cervical tracheal segment with autologous blood depleted of leukocytes or with similar leukocyte-depleted blood that had been repleted with its neutrophils. Fifteen minutes after the onset of perfusion with either leukocyte-depleted or neutrophil-repleted blood, PAF infusion was begun into the tracheal arterial vasculature. The contractile response of the tracheal muscle to parasympathetic stimulation was measured before and 15 and 30 min after the onset of PAF infusion. PAF did not significantly change the response of tracheal muscle during perfusion with neutrophil-depleted blood but increased the response of tracheal muscle during perfusion with neutrophil-repleted blood. We conclude that the increase in canine tracheal muscle response induced by intra-arterial PAF depends on neutrophils.
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Subject
Physiology (medical),Physiology
Cited by
3 articles.
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